Re: Help needed for screenshots

[Felipe López]

On 18/11/14 08:51, David Thompson wrote:
> Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Em Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:13:16 +0100
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) escreveu:
>>
>>> I’d rather remove the table altogether, unless LibreJS really uses it.
>>
>> LibreJS *really* needs it.  JavaScript License Web Labels is the
>> preferred, and practical, method for labeling third party scripts as
>> free [0].
>>
>>> And even if LibreJS uses it, I’d rather make it invisible.
>>
>> Wouldn't that defeat one of the purposes of the method's design?
>> People should have easy access to the source code of the programs they
>> are running.  If we hide the table, people won't easily find the source
>> code.  So, what would be the purpose of stating them as free in the
>> first place?
>>
>> I think the best solution is to make a separate page
>> 'javascript.html' with the table, and put a small, but prominent,
>> LibreJS logo linking to that page, like I did for my personal web site. 
> 
> I think moving the weblabels table to a separate page would be good.  It
> clutters the page footer.  If users *really* want to see the licenses
> and links to individual source files, they can click a link in the
> footer that brings them to the table.  However, LibreJS exists because
> most users *aren't* going to check that the JavaScript is free before
> running it, so we automate the process.
> 
> I understand the rationale for weblabels, but I think they are a bad
> technical decision that has caused me lots of annoying issues when they
> mysteriously don't work.  I would much prefer a terse JSON
> representation of this data intended for a program to read.  Why scrape
> a web page when you have other options?  Why enforce markup restrictions
> on web developers?
> 
> Sorry for the rant.
> 

I couldn't agree more with you :)


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