"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23

Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by logn on Sunday June 30, 2013 @11:13PM (#5968419)

Can you get away with using unicode chars instead? ... Sounds like this could be a good open source project.

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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by nhamann on Monday July 01, 2013 @12:38AM (#5968676)

I don't know how extensive Unicode math symbols are, but it's unclear to me how you would display things like matrices and do alignment of multiline equations.

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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by logn on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:55AM (#5968949)

I'm not sure either. But I know that you can do crazy things with unicode, and I'd bet that if you treated treated unicode as a sort of low-level compile-to target you could then design a high-level language from which to write math text. I'm not sure of the practical benefit and maybe this would be even more inaccessible to people... but still, I think JS is great, but wouldn't pure HTML and encodings be even cooler?

Food for thought: http://shapecatcher.com/ 🍏

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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by lelf on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:23AM (#5969373)

And load fonts with JS?

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