Text 12693, 56 rader
Skriven 2009-05-11 00:25:34 av Bo Simonsen (2:236/100.0)
  Kommentar till text 12692 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: catch a fire
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MK>> You argue that the www is porn and nothing else?
MK>
MK>No.  I argue that for every excuse for having a javascript capable
MK>browser the real reason is most often pornography.  

Well I use facebook and there I need a browser supporting javascript. I've
been a teaching assistant this semester, and we used a CMS system provided
by the university, and it would probably not have worked out either in
a text-based browser. 

MK>I have no idea of
MK>the percentage of bandwidth internet accessable pornography uses but I
MK>bet it is high.  I used to "fix" harddrives for people and the caches
MK>left there by their extremely crippled browsers that they insist they
MK>needed told the true tale.  ;-)

Nick Andre wrote recently that if Fidonet had a Porn echo it would be more
popular. :)

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

I can to some limit... Probably because I love my BBS that much, no GUI
is required..

MK>> I just think that the WWW have become something far too complicated
MK>> to fit into a small, maybe embedded, environment.
MK>
MK>Piece of cake.  The real question is why anyone would want to do that in
MK>the first place.  I have it cased and I assume many others do as well.
MK>It isn't like I've created a newfangled approach to solving this issue.
MK>Perhaps I employ it differently (ie user-unfriendly) but it isn't
MK>anything I can honestly take credit for.

WWW was greate until the whole Web 2.0 thing came...

MK>> But the point is that many webpages will not work at all today
MK>
MK>Nothing of any consequence.  I have yet to hear, nevermind see, any web
MK>site that demands javascript offer anything in return for that need.  If
MK>anything it serves to prove that the web master is likely
MK>unknowledgeable and has one of those lame html editors that cut and
MK>paste crap all over the site.  Monkeys could be trained to run those
MK>sites.  ;-)

That's right to some point.. Some websites also provide mobile versions,
which is probably useful for a text-based browser.. 

You got a short reply today, I've used all night writing a paper for
a conference with my supervisor (more rewriting I guess), which
we finally send to the workshop commitee, so not much energy left.. :)

Bo

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