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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by echelon on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:33PM (#20881129)
We need a new type of browser that only understands minimal HTML and doesn't allow script execution. Something entirely document-centric. There has to be a way to put the genie back in the bottle.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by toomim on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:35PM (#20881144)
How is this anti-javascript sentiment relevant to an article about the `<video>` tag?
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by ihuman on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:40PM (#20881198)
You don't a need type of browser for this. Just use NoScript.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by tenebrisalietum on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:07PM (#20881422)
PDFs mostly fulfill this.

I'm aware they can have scripts and such, but people expect PDFs to be static documents and not applications.

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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by atombender on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:19PM (#20881542)
They really don't, since they don't reflow. Viewing a PDF paper on a phone, for example, is a nightmare because you have to zoom in and out and pan around to even be able to read the text.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by krapp on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:39PM (#20881189)
>There has to be a way to put the genie back in the bottle.

Only an extreme minority of people, even within the tech community, wish the web were limited only to static, minimally formatted hypertext. Not even the people who created HTML and the glorious "old web" had such a limited vision of it in mind.

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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by lucasmullens on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @06:51PM (#20882161)
You mean an old type of browser? That's like, where we started.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by jakeogh on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @08:03PM (#20882628)
try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806638
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by jazzyjackson on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:35PM (#20881666)
Gopher
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