Re: lynx-dev Re: another thought about Javascript

[Eduardo Pérez]

On 2002-03-06 07:54:04 -0500, A. R. Vener wrote:
> Would it be possible to resolve the problem of Javascript on the 
> server side? That is design a filter to map some of the 
> more obvious excesses of Javascript into HTML compliant artifacts and
> scrub the rest. If this could be built into apache and other web servers
> so that it is activated by somea well defined variable, it might
> help to alleviate the problem and make some of the links now hidden 
> behind javascript accessible.
> 
> This would still let the JS lovers have their little whizz-bangs while
> allowing non JS browsers to access the content.

Moving things to the server side is not a good idea.
Servers should be transparent. You move data to the server, and someone
access THAT data, and nothing else.

That won't work with client side ciphered o signed web pages.
With ciphered web pages you don't know the content in advance and with
signed web pages you can't modify the web page as that would break the
signature.

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