Hi bill-auger > AFAICT, wikipedia works perfectly with librejs; so i > dont fully understand the concern raised in this thread
Wikipedia does indeed. However, in articles, it links to other sites, such as YouTube, which don't work perfectly without librejs. The proposal is to replace these links with links to other sites which retrieve the same content via API and do not expose users to the propriettary JavaScript that is present at YouTube pages. > the user, before > deciding to click the link (intentionally), always has the > opportunity to inspect the URL which would be resolved Yes. The users would see this is a YouTube link. But they would not know that YouTube, with LibreJS on, won't show the video content properly. > in either case of API vs directly-clickable URLs, neither are > executable software Directly clickable URLs expose the users to directly visit YouTube, and in the case it doesn't play with librejs on, this can be a serious usability issue. > as best as i understand this proposal, it seems like it would be > a matter of "feature-creep" for librejs Perhaps. Can this proposal be implemented as a separate add-on? -- Svetlana Tkachenko, Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation = Gryllida, Volunteer for the Wikimedia movement in English and Russian http://www.wikimedia.org http://www.fsf.org http://www.gnu.org
