I understood that mandatory Javascript is unacceptable for accessibility reasons. afaik the site is currently fully useable without Javascript except for a few bells and whistles. This had better not change. Brian On 15/03/2014 05:28, Eggert, Lars wrote: > 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 >> >