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Meanwhile you can probably connect HTML client to already existing open-source non-HTML bot [1] using its bot-as-a-proxy feature. Adding automation stuff directly to HTML client shouldn't be hard, assuming network protocol handling and state keeping already provided for you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openkore

<object/> works well for playing video without any JavaScript.

>it's a shame there is no more status bar as well

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...

RefControl is a nice addon for that, with ability to set default behaviour and override it for specific domains.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

Meanwhile in Firefox, since 2008: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabinta/

This should be a browser feature, extension or user script, not a website feature.

It should be a browser feature, option or extension, for users to have control over it from one place.

So, nobody cares about more widely adopted <object/> which was supposed to be a solution for future media types and just happens to usually be more stable, have better perfomance and support much more media formats without having to invent new elements for each media type. Not even as a fallback.

RequestPolicy prevents that approach.

>match every location you visit against a whitelist of about 300 webzines

Yeah, whitelist can't be downloaded.

>The plugin mentioned at the end won't work - not unless it's going to have a tedious whitelist.

RequestPolicy (Firefox addon) works just fine, not much tedious than NoScript or CookieMonster, for example.

While remotely hosted images may be a strong argument, if the page breaks due to missing fonts or scripts - it's really only site's fault.

>The privacy plugin that I am working on, Parley, would solve the cross-site tracking aspect of this bug, since it blocks all third party requests.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...

>It's impossible to do that, unless they managed to write a new client.

Possible with ROPS.

Possible with OpenKore (a "new client" itself) in XKore mode.

>Flash soars with video because of hardware acceleration and active streaming

Hardware acceleration and streaming works fine even with HTML4 <OBJECT/>, providing the choice and configuration of media player if user desires.

CSS is not a programming language either.

>http://gizmodo.com/#...

Broken link.

It's not about affiliate links or advertisements. Target URL should be just there, without contacting random servers to determine it.

The problem of target URL being unknown until you follow the link still applies.

As unnecessary as any other URL shortening; and features like this belong to user clients (and not content) where they're always available for those and only those who needs them.

Any free email provider can be used for fake, one-time, temporary email addresses - it just takes a bit more time to register another one. It's just annoying when email is needed to create an account, and way more annoying when it filters email addresses for no reason.

"OK, pretty strange looking if you aren't used to Perl. Or even if you are used to Perl."

Yep.

Google analytics JavaScript spyware included.