Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Freedom of html... JavaScript trap

[Narcis Garcia]

This returns to a 2014 thread, when Jonas Wielicki said "99% of the
users don’t understand javascript. And those who do will *still* be
faced with ununderstandable minified gibberish".

I took part of Julian Marchant's idea to expose my similar opinion:

Managing scripts as software packages that user authorises to install
and/or update.
This could open the door to, in the future, exist JS FLOSS repositories.

99% of the users don't understand Java, but they install java
applications from mobile's repositories, and select what to add or remove.

And many users understand the concept of "extensions" or "plugins" for
an application. If we consider a website as an application (as most
users do), we can consider JavaScript functions (or libraries) as
optional plugins.

This conceptual view can allow in the future to develop better
webbrowsers and give easier access to security and privacy.



El 04/07/15 a les 01:39, Svetlana A. Tkachenko ha escrit:
> Hi all.
> 
> I was thinking about the future of the web. In principle, it's a nice 
> platform, and users can find a way to save the frontend of the web sites onto 
> their computers as an app. And LibreJS makes sure that they don't save 
> non-free JavaScript unknowingly. But is non-free markup a problem? Do we need 
> to write a browser add-on which detects web site licence and blocks it if it 
> is non-free, and to ask everyone to label their HTML/XML source with proper 
> licenses?
>