Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2016 02:32:24 UTC
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I agree with most of the points in that article:
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/restore-online-freedom/
But the article misses what I consider to be a very important distinction: there are JavaScript programs---SaaSS, usually---which are alternatives to desktop software; and then there are small JavaScript programs that are tightly coupled to an otherwise normal website, and cannot function without it.
The former can be packaged; I call it "unwebbing". The latter can't be; you can't package millions of small programs. That needs to be distributed.
I disagree with killing JS. But I also disagree with polluting the web with "documents" (HTML pages) that aren't actually documents. Let programs be programs and documents be documents; programs can augment them, but not replace them, or fundamentally compose them.