Re: A suggest to LibreJS

[Svetlana Tkachenko]

Hi bill-auger

> AFAICT, wikipedia works perfectly with librejs; so i 
> dont fully understand the concern raised in this thread

Wikipedia does indeed. However, in articles, it links
to other sites, such as YouTube, which don't work 
perfectly without librejs. 

The proposal is to replace these links with links to 
other sites which retrieve the same content via API 
and do not expose users to the propriettary JavaScript
that is present at YouTube pages.

> the user, before
> deciding to click the link (intentionally), always has the
> opportunity to inspect the URL which would be resolved

Yes. The users would see this is a YouTube link. But they
would not know that YouTube, with LibreJS on, won't show
the video content properly.

> in either case of API vs directly-clickable URLs, neither are
> executable software

Directly clickable URLs expose the users to directly visit
YouTube, and in the case it doesn't play with librejs on,
this can be a serious usability issue.

> as best as i understand this proposal, it seems like it would be
> a matter of "feature-creep" for librejs

Perhaps. Can this proposal be implemented as a separate add-on?

-- 
Svetlana Tkachenko, Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation
= Gryllida, Volunteer for the Wikimedia movement in English and Russian
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