Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Nic Ferrier]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> I think the discussion is going in a bad direction: HTML that
> depends on Javascript.
>
> I think an HTML-based format could be a step up, but special software
> to use it should be a package for local installatoin, NOT Javascript
> code to be included in web pages.

I did this a while ago:

  http://gnudoc.ferrier.me.uk

it's a sketch of an HTML/JS based viewer that works in the web browser.

I agree that a stand alone viewer should work but I'd like to think we
could construct something in such a way that made it possible to make a
web version AND a version for emacs AND a version to run on a computer
without a web browser or emacs.


At the time you were enthusiastic about my webapp. You encouraged me to
keep working on it. I have. I hope your view hasn't changed.



Nic


PS I am also working on an emacs-lisp -> javascript compiler so we could
write the javascript part of a webapp in emacs-lisp.