Hi, I think the applets thing is a red herring. The more interesting question is whether we should assume Javascript support in browsers. (Your FreeBSD box browser probably had that, hence Etherpad works.) I would personally say "yes" here, but I am pretty sure there will be some folks out there using lynx... Lars On 2014-3-14, at 16:23, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 7.d.vii: "For pages that require the use of applets, a link to the page >> where the user can obtain the plug-ins will be provided.": Do we really >> want/need to go that far? What about just saying "no use of >> applets/plugins"? > > Yes, please. Many of us use neither Windows nor Mac nor Android nor > iOS, which means that applets rarely work. Anything useful you can do > with an applet you can do, perhaps slightly slower, by sending > requests back to the host. > > Also, you can do a lot of useful stuff with no applets at all. > Etherpad works fine on my FreeBSD box, for example, where I've used it > to take notes for many WG sessions. > > R's, > John >
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