Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Teaching programming (was: libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 71, Issue 6)

[Harry Prevor]

(sorry for the double send Mike, forgot to address to the mailing list 
the first time)

On 2016-02-03 10:52, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> Please don't link to Google Docs, as it requires that users run
> proprietary JavaScript, and does not work with JavaScript
> disabled.  See:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
>
> As such, I and others cannot view it.  Perhaps you can export it in
> another format that others can view?

For the record, this has never been true. I wrote a program a long time 
ago that allows you to download Google Docs in the free ODT format; the 
script seems to have been lost but the process is still simple:

http://archive.is/Oxqwf

You may still not want to use GD because it may be difficult (but not 
impossible) to *edit* the documents using only free software, but it 
certainly is not hard to view Google Docs documents using only free 
software.

--
Harry Prevor