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=== Website no longer usable without JavaScript (2023) === | === Website no longer usable without JavaScript (2023) === | ||
Up until 2022, Archive.org was one of the few remaining major websites that could be browsed and searched without [[JavaScript]]. JavaScript was only used | Up until 2022, Archive.org was one of the few remaining major websites that could be browsed and searched without [[JavaScript]]. JavaScript was mostly only used for features that couldn't be implemented otherwise, such as for enabling bottomless scrolling. This is known as progressive enhancement.<ref name=jakearchibald>{{cite web |url=https://jakearchibald.com/2013/progressive-enhancement-still-important/ |title=Progressive enhancement is still important - JakeArchibald.com |date=2013-07-03 |access-date=2026-04-18 }}</ref> | ||
Since 2023 however, large parts of the Archive.org website (including the home page, collection pages, and the search engine) can no longer be browsed at all without JavaScript, because the legacy HTML-based user interface was replaced with a Google Lit web app. As of April 2026, only individual item pages remain viewable without JavaScript.<ref>Before change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3vxC8 2023-06-28]. After change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sdLIp 2023-09-28]</ref><!-- Editor note: I also know this from personal experience, but given that archive.org/details was excluded from the Wayback Machine and Archive Today converts everything to static HTML, there is not much of a historical record available for these changes. User account pages (archive.org/details/@...) were made JS-only in March 2024, but I'll have to find a source for this. --> | Since 2023 however, large parts of the Archive.org website (including the home page, collection pages, and the search engine) can no longer be browsed at all without JavaScript, because the legacy HTML-based user interface was replaced with a Google Lit web app. As of April 2026, only individual item pages remain viewable without JavaScript.<ref>Before change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3vxC8 2023-06-28]. After change: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sdLIp 2023-09-28]</ref><!-- Editor note: I also know this from personal experience, but given that archive.org/details was excluded from the Wayback Machine and Archive Today converts everything to static HTML, there is not much of a historical record available for these changes. User account pages (archive.org/details/@...) were made JS-only in March 2024, but I'll have to find a source for this. --> | ||