Re: Feedback wanted: syntax highlighting in the LilyPond documentation

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-01-04 11:32 am, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Forgive my igorance with the inner workings of the
> Internet: what does this mean in connection with GDPR
> and all that? Am I right that the fact that the
> information stored on the user's device serves
> a purpose essential to satisfying the very request
> of the user means that it would fall under PECR
> exceptions to the requirement of a banner asking
> for explicit consent of the user?

Always best to consult a lawyer on legal matters.

My layman understanding is that GDPR generally deals with information 
that passes through servers that might be retained without offering some 
form of end-user control.  Use of localStorage, rather than cookies, 
should mean no settings ever need to be sent to the server.  Users are 
entirely in control of this local data, although I suppose some browsers 
make it easier to access than others.

For those with privacy or security concerns, the web site source still 
remains entirely auditable as everything with styling is done local on 
the browser.  And the code in question should be so trivial that there 
is no need to minify/uglify it, so that preserves readability and 
hopefully earns some trust that we are not doing anything shady.


> Other than that, well, there is still JavaScript.
> That's may not be the thing to be most happy about, but
> we could check how LibreJS handles that JavaScript,
> possibly adding stylized license comments, so that
> it would be no problem to those people refusing non-free
> JavaScript using LibreJS/IceCat. All in all this approach
> does look promising to me.

I think I am not understanding the concerns around licensing.

At the end of the day, if someone does not want to use JavaScript, then 
the functionality will not work.  We should make sure the default 
behavior of the site is sound for such cases, so no one feels they have 
to enable JS if they do not wish.  That might mean the standard styling 
needs to be black and white if that creates the least friction for 
users.


-- Aaron Hill