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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:09AM (#16865844)
Spot on. And most of website should not even need javascript but some simple extension to xhtml to allow interactive websites in a declarative fashion rather than having a Turing-complete language.
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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by janvidar on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:32AM (#16865926)
CSS is Turing-complete.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836 (2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734966 (2015)

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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by ChrisSD on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:41AM (#16865966)
Those comment threads dispute that claim.
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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:48AM (#16866212)
So?
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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by professor_plum on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:02PM (#16868961)
So using CSS, one can fingerprint a browser and communicate that information back to home base by programmatic inclusion of font A or font B. This inclusion triggers the download from the respective URL, thus giving that URL information about the user.
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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by gkya on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:15PM (#16868542)
Yeah so is Power Point too.
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