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Skriven 2009-05-10 14:38:02 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Bo Simonsen
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Hey Bo!

> You argue that the www is porn and nothing else?

No.  I argue that for every excuse for having a javascript capable browser the
real reason is most often pornography.  I have no idea of the percentage of
bandwidth internet accessable pornography uses but I bet it is high.  I used to
"fix" harddrives for people and the caches left there by their extremely
crippled browsers that they insist they needed told the true tale.  ;-)

Personally I could care less.  I can easily live without an overbloated,
crippled javascript capable browser.

> I just think that the WWW have become something far too complicated
> to fit into a small, maybe embedded, environment.

Piece of cake.  The real question is why anyone would want to do that in the
first place.  I have it cased and I assume many others do as well. It isn't
like I've created a newfangled approach to solving this issue. Perhaps I employ
it differently (ie user-unfriendly) but it isn't anything I can honestly take
credit for.

> But the point is that many webpages will not work at all today

Nothing of any consequence.  I have yet to hear, nevermind see, any web site
that demands javascript offer anything in return for that need.  If anything it
serves to prove that the web master is likely unknowledgeable and has one of
those lame html editors that cut and paste crap all over the site.  Monkeys
could be trained to run those sites.  ;-)

Hm.  Maybe there really are monkeys running those sites?

MK> still do it more or less that way today even if using traditional
HD's.

> Cool. :)

I agree.  Too bad it never went anywhere.  I could see a trimmed down version
of it being a good foundation for a point system as opposed to a node.  Offhand
I think the runtimes and dependencies would come in at around 500k.  I forget
now but I am sure it would be under 1M, not counting any stored messages of
course.

Life is good,
Maurice

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