[buug] $*#! JavaScript and the new playing field for Free Software

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ian Zimmerman (itz at buug.org):

> Of course it is not about JavaScript the language which is no uglier
> than, say, Perl.  It is about depending on untrusted, unfixable (unless
> you control the website) and mostly un-inspectable (with minimization
> etc.) code.
 
And in conclusion, yay NoScript and RequestPolicy, which help make
JavaScript less of a liability and annoyance.
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=kicking#linuxbrowser