On 03/11/2012 05:47 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:14:26PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"H. S. Teoh"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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In the past, I've even used UserJS to *edit* the site's JS on the
fly to rewrite stupid JS code (like replace sniffBrowser() with a
function that returns true, bwahahaha) while leaving the rest of the
site functional. I do not merely hate Javascript, I fight it, kill
it, and twist it to my own sinister ends.>:-)
I admire that :) Personally, I don't have the patience. I just bitch
and moan :)
Well, that was in the past. Nowadays they've smartened up (or is it
dumbened down?) with the advent of JS obfuscators. Which, OT1H, is silly
because anything that the client end can run will eventually be cracked,
so it actually doesn't offer *real* protection in the first place, and
OTOH annoying 'cos I really can't be bothered to waste the time and
effort to crack some encrypted code coming from some shady site that
already smells of lousy design and poor implementation anyway.
So I just leave and never come back to the site.
I'd prefer to do that (leave and never come back), but unfortunately, the
modern regression of tying data/content to the interface often makes that
impossible:
For example, I can't see what materials my library has available, or manage
my own library account, without using *their* crappy choice of software.
It's all just fucking data! Crap, DBs are an age-old thing.
Or, I'd love to be able leave GitHub and never come back. But DMD is on
GitHub, so I can't create/browse/review pull requests, check what public
forks are available, etc., without using GitHub's piece of shit site.
I'd love to leave Google Code, Google Docs and YouTube and never come back,
but people keep posting their content on those shitty sites which,
naturally, prevent me from accessing said content in any other way.
Etc...
And most of that is all just because some idiots decided to start treating a
document-transmission medium as an applications platform.
I swear to god, interoperability was better in the 80's.
(And jesus christ, *Google Docs*?!? How the fuck did we ever get a document
platform *ON TOP* of a fucking *DOCUMENT PLATFORM* and have people actually
*TAKE IT SERIOUSLY*!?! Where the hell was I when they started handing out
the free crazy-pills?)
Nick, how would you implement (protocols, architecture, whatever) an
online document editor?
