From the course: Building a Resilient Web

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Resilience is at the core of the web platform

Resilience is at the core of the web platform

From the course: Building a Resilient Web

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Resilience is at the core of the web platform

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- [Instructor] Let me show you something that astonished me the first time I saw it many years ago. Here's the website. This is my personal blog by the way, in case you're wondering. It has texts and images and layouts and fonts and other stuff a typical modern website would have. What we're looking at in the browser right now is a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript all working together and working correctly. Nothing surprising here. What's interesting about the web is it's fault tolerance. Just watch what happens if I do something radical like disable JavaScript. I can go into my developer tools in the browser, go to the settings, scroll down a bit and here I find disable JavaScript. Now, watch what happens to the view when I changed JavaScript. There's something in this view you're seeing right now that is reliant on JavaScript. When I checked this box for disable JavaScript, the browser will reload the page…

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