Re: State of the Project

[jahoti]

On 4/2/21 4:27 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>    > * WorldCat doesn't seem to have any critical issues with JavaScript
>    > disabled. Could someone point out to me what needs to be addressed?
>
> I saw this myself but it wasn't recently.  Perhaps the nonfree JS code
> is a CAPTCHA you only get if you come in via Tor.

Thankfully there isn't such a CAPTCHA at present, at least one common 
enough that I've encountered it in four visits.

>    > * Would https://github.com/berbaquero/reeddit be suitable for Reddit?
>
> It describes itself as a "web-app client".  Is that another term for
> the extensions we're discussing?  If not, how is it different?

Not exactly- it means it's a client (for Reddit) that runs as a single 
HTML page with some static scripts and stylesheets. That makes 
converting it into extensions as easy as adding a manifest and 
compressing everything.

However, I don't think it would be worth actually doing that except as a 
proof of concept. While old.reddit.com is still working there is little 
benefit to maintaining such an extension, and the fact that the old 
interface is popular but not the default suggests it will continue to 
work without JavaScript for the foreseeable future. As long as we remain 
sure the basis for an extension is available, that can be made into an 
active project whenever it becomes necessary.

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