It is the distant promise

Friends on LiveJournal: you may have read that there is now an lj-spoiler tag, which is a bit like lj-cut except that it appears everywhere (in comments, in posts whether or not you're on a journal/friends or entry page) and that it's JavaScript based, replacing itself with its contents when clicked. Which could be nice, except it doesn't fail gracefully at all: as noted here, if someone is reading your supposedly protected spoilers with JavaScript turned off, in a comment notification email, or some other way that bypasses JavaScript, not only will they see the spoiler in the clear, but they will get no indication that there was ever a spoiler tag to begin with.

Maybe LJ will fix this, although I'm not holding my breath. In the mean time, if you use this tag, you should probably still indicate somewhere in the text of the post that spoilers are forthcoming, and maybe put the tag as its own paragraph to gives some pre-spoiler space to whoever's getting email notifications. Also, maybe spread the word to your fandom communities, if any of you actually still follow fandom communities on LiveJournal?

(It probably doesn't need to be said, but this is another great example of how Dreamwidth and LiveJournal have very different approaches to new features.)