"Let them eat cake" approach just does not work...
"Let them eat cake" approach just does not work...
Posted Mar 27, 2009 15:29 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: "I CAN see why you'd want this - I just don't think it's realistic by pboddie
Parent article: Stallman: the JavaScript trap
Well, of course I wouldn't need to run a modified version of the JavaScript code if I could have access to the underlying data, but we don't always get the choice.
If you can not convince people to give you this access how the hell are planning to ask them to give you stable client<->server API - without which free JavaScript is useless? It's usually easier to give you access to raw data than to create and support stable client<->server API...
Meanwhile, in all this discussion, I think we've completely demolished the "JavaScript is just content" notion, which is what I mostly objected to in the beginning.
I see no such demolishing. Sure JavaScript is what server uses to show you tables, circles and other figures but it's no different from how PostScript and PDF are used. Either you should declare all these countless PostScript and PDF papers "programs" and fight for freedom (good luck) or you should accept that JavaScript is just a content in pretty opaque form...