Re: [LUG] Not OT, but apropos of nothing

[wes <davidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Martijn Grooten wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, wes wrote:

> > > W3m is an obscure text-browser. A but like lynx, but better. Most
> > > of the web these days really requires you to use a full-fledged
> > > browser, with graphics and JavaScript and all that (and that's
> > > probably a good thing),
> >
> > maybe i am a control-freak, but i want the ability to make an
> > informed decision before (1) i run a particular javascript program
> > or (2) view an image file.
>
> Which is fair enough. But most people neither have the desire, nor
> the technical understanding to make such an informed decision. And
> images and JavaScript, with all their problems, make browsing the
> web a more pleasant experience for people like my mother, or my
> grandfather. Hence probably a good thing.

i see your point.  access for all.  it is a very good point.

i don't want to ban javascript.  absolutely not.  that isn't one of
the impossible things i am foolish enough to want.  (maybe there was a
time, but i am less dumb now, by that much, and slightly less
confused.)

just to clarify what i had in mind:

re javacript:

what i would like to use, is a javascript-capable web browser which,
when rendering a document, only loads those programs i choose to
enable.

if the client could also construct a sort of hypothetical pstree,
depicting what-{would,could}-call-what, something like that might be
cool.  or so i speculate.

re images:

on firefox's Preferences > Content menu, for example, there is a 'load
images automatically' checkbox.

although one might expect the other side of that coin to be 'load
images selectively (at my per-image discretion)', it is not.

instead, afaict, firefox only toggles from 'load all images' to 'kill
them with fire'.  i find no option to include on the rendered page
links to images.

i find its absence in firefox conspicuous (and particularly so, given
its presence in what are called text-only browsers).


best wishes,
wes

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