Re: [Trisquel-users] 2016 RMS talk in Zurich

[dguthrie]

I have to disagree on this one. Yes, JavaScript was a questionable decision  
in some respects, there are certain advantages to having a scriptable web.  
For example, webmail is extremely useful if you are using someone else's  
computer (and some JavaScript webmail services are libre). The way that  
JavaScript is often used to implement things that should be done in HTML  
(such as displaying pictures) is stupid, and malicious JavaScript is a  
problem. I would argue instead that the web browser should have it off by  
default and ask users if they want to run scripts temporarily, which NoScript  
achieves through the whitelist or LibreJS does by checking for licenses.