Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Kevin, if you took off your FSF blindfold you would see that it's
better
for web sites to use JavaScript. If they complied to /your/ wishes we
would have a thousand proprietary protocols, probably all /closed/
source, to communicate in between /closed/ source applications. Most
likely Microsoft or another Closed Source vendor would create a protocol
standard that applications would adopt, and you yourself would probably
have to write to! In this situation we have to choose the lesser of two
evils instead of no evils.
The "lesser of 2 evils" is no solution. Only NO evil at all will keep the
user's freedom. Users should NEVER use proprietary software, be it as
JavaScript or using a proprietary protocol.
Kevin Kofler