On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote:
> Last time I asked, just about everyone actively using FMS who commented on > the matter was of the view that for Freenet to *require* javascript would > be utterly unacceptable. > Yes, when you ask people "how would you feel about being forced to use X", the answer will always be negative. If you ask people "would you like Freenet to have a user interface of comparable quality to Google Docs or Gmail?", I suspect they'd say "yes". You can get the answer you want by phrasing the question carefully. > Aggravating your core userbase is usually a bad strategy, even if you hope > that you might gain casual users to replace them eventually. IMHO it is > important - not necessarily of primary importance, but an important > consideration - not to alienate what is at present, and probably in future, > an important demographic - paranoid (justifiably or not) semi-techie users. > We should accomodate justified concerns, but we should not accomodate unjustified concerns - and concerns about Javascript fall into the latter category. Many projects die because they are held hostage by a vocal minority of their existing user base who resist any change. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120313/1040067d/attachment.html>
