Re: GFDL holds the answer about fancy javascript (was: gnuradio project..)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 1) HTML without JavaScript and without documentation search functionality

  > and

  > 2) HTML with JavaScript and with documentation search functionality where 
such 
  > search functionality doesn't work on text-based browsers, but everything 
else 
  > does.

There's nothing wrong, in principle, with having functionality that
works on graphical browsers and fails on text-based browsers.  (It would
be shame to create a problem gratuitously, if fixing the problem is easy.)

However, why not have a fall-back search facility for text-based
browsers, that works without graphics or Javascript?  Even if it looks
clunky, it is better than nothing.

The ethical issue in this area is that all Javascript code sent to the
user must be free.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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