Just started getting this now. Hopefully it’s some A/B testing that they’ll stop doing, but I’m not holding my breath

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago
      <form method="GET" action="https://duckduckgo.com/">
    <input name="q" type="text"/>
    <button type="submit">Go</button>
  </form>

    This is a fully functional search bar. This is all it needs to be. It doesn’t need Javascript, only if you want suggestions.

    The last time I checked, Google still works if you simply pass your query in the URL using the q variable. Google has no need to enforce Javascript.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        3 months ago

        It’s not about looks, it’s about functionality. I could add a hundred lines of CSS to make it sparkle without touching Javascript. I could think of a dozen convenience features that would require Javascript, but none that, if disabled, would prevent the search bar from functioning as a search bar.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        Like lack of accessibility? I generally use reader mode, because it gives an actual good user experience rather than “one that doesn’t look like the 90s”. I’m not sure if it turns off JavaScript, but it clearly turns off the crap that it does. Maybe half of websites work that way, the rest I either skip or click to turn off reader mode.

        I just tried google, and reader mode is disabled, which is a problem for people with accessibility issues.

        Does EU have accessibility protections? Does google give the same ad filled, cluttered, crap as the rest of us? What if you try reader mode