Re: lynx-dev Thinking of a Possible Javascript to html Converter

[Henry Nelson]

> One thing that's bothered me on this list is the general attitude
> towards suggestions.  Quite often, replies are along the lines
> of; "you can't do that because of [condition]," or; "that would
> be very difficult because of [condition]."  Very rarely have I
> seen; "okay, guess you could do that if you want, but how would
> you get around [same condition]?"

Some of us who play the devel's [sic] advocate are worried that
"that" (some new proposed feature) is just more trappings and bloat.
Either that, or the implementation sounds half-baked, flaky or
liable to introduce security bugs.  When you have something good,
you don't mess with it just for messing's sake.

__Henry

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