A preference to display a JavaScript-free, stripped down results page

fritter

The results page is already very fast! But it would be nice to have an option - particularly on mobile - for a results page that loads more or less instantaneously, with no JavaScript and very little DOM to parse through. I realize this wouldn't be compatible with every feature, but it would be worth the trade-off for me.

z64

Hi @fritter,

We have full support for clients that have JavaScript disabled. With few exceptions, if there is anything that does not work with JS disabled, it should be reported as a bug.

To further reduce the page size, on https://kagi.com/settings?p=search you can enable "Fewer Results Per Page", and this will serve results in smaller chunks. This is intended for those looking to save bandwidth, or simply don't want to see lower relevancy results. You can also use the toggles lower on that page to turn off other inline content elements.

It is also a longer term goal to reduce our page, CSS, and JS resource sizes even further.

Let me know if that helps, or if you have something more in mind.

keyes

I used Kagi without Javascript for a few months. The only outstanding bug I encountered was this one: https://kagifeedback.org/d/1303-consumption-previous-months-button-not-working-in-html-only-page

The AI features don't work with Javascript currently (ever?).

z64

keyes

The AI features don't work with Javascript currently (ever?).

Correct. At the time we added them, the state of the art AI was an order of magnitude slower than it is now, and we did not have a good way to indicate a "everything is working, its just loading" state without JS.

Things are much faster now as the technology has improved - new AI features that we add will have nojs support as usual, and we will get back around to supporting it for Quick Answer & inline result summaries.