{"id":1872,"date":"2007-08-09T19:51:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2007\/08\/09\/javascript_feat.html"},"modified":"2007-08-09T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T19:51:39","slug":"javascript_feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/08\/09\/javascript_feat.html","title":{"rendered":"javascript features make reading a nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as far back as I can remember, I have highlighted words while I read on the screen.  I don&#8217;t know why.  It&#8217;s kinda the equivalent to moving my finger along the written text.  Apparently, this is not a common practice.  If I highlight words at the NYTimes and accidentally click on a single word, the NYTimes tries to look up the word with a new window.  I really don&#8217;t need a definition of &#8220;the&#8221; and it just makes me lose track of what I was reading.  Lately, I&#8217;ve noticed that blogs are starting to sport these annoying javascript-y in-page popups that block text with information about the links that I&#8217;ve accidentally scrolled over.  Again, I lose track of what I was reading.  Usually, I just give up and quit any blog that has those annoying things.  Maybe I&#8217;m old-fashioned, but I really don&#8217;t want to see a screenshot of a website when I mouse over the link.  A mini-picture of a page full of text does nothing except annoy me.  It&#8217;s not additional information; it just feels icky.  Le sigh.  Am I alone on this one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as far back as I can remember, I have highlighted words while I read on the screen. I don&#8217;t know why. It&#8217;s kinda the equivalent to moving my finger along the written text. Apparently, this is not a common practice. If I highlight words at the NYTimes and accidentally click on a single word, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno-doom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}