Am 15.10.2010 17:29, schrieb Matthew Toseland: > We are considering making it impossible to use Freenet without a browser > supporting Javascript. Yes or no answers would be useful (feel free to make > further comments). I will post a similar poll to FMS. I suggest somebody does > Frost, I personally don't use Frost. >
1. The only reason for pushing a pure javascript based interface seems to be the pushing to use GWT for generating the interface. GWT is not easily packaged (i already invested many hours and was not able to do so the last time) and a big package (especially for compile resources), so especially for source based distros, but also for possible maintainers for other distros, it raises the barrier and time needed to install and maintain freenet. Additionally i see no real reason or need to require explicitly and only GWT except some hype around it, there are also other ways to implement a nice web interface, including html+css with some optional additional javascript. 2. Javascript is both used for annoying ads and to exploit browser issues. Those are 2 good reasons to not have it enabled by default. I am sure, that i am not the only person thinking that way. I dont expect every interface or website to fully work without javascript, but i expect some basic functionality or i may just leave it again. Because of both reason, my vote is: -requirement: NO -optional: yes Especially the first point (requirement of GWT) could drive me away, both as a contributor (some translations, bug reports and packages for Gentoo Linux) and followed by that, because of missing packages, as a user, since i dont expect packaging GWT to be much easier these days. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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