H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Nov 24, 2015 03:53 PM EST:
> So, perhaps, we could allow JavaScript on pages, though not in comments, and just police against any misuse of JavaScript.
Yes, this was what I was proposing from the start. It seems obvious that if you want to allow people to submit their own contributions, you should allow them all the tools they could get to deliver the best result. I don't know what kind of 'misuse' you are afraid of. It seems they could do little harm other than wrecking their own page. For which they probably would not need JavaScript.
If you want to minimize the work involved in policing, the submission form could get another checkbox "Using JavaScript" similar to the one we have now for "Using HTML tags", so that the editors reviewing the submission are made immediately aware whether they are dealing with a page that is static, or one with one that might contain surprises, and deserves some closer inspection.
> So, perhaps, we could allow JavaScript on pages, though not in comments, and just police against any misuse of JavaScript.
Yes, this was what I was proposing from the start. It seems obvious that if you want to allow people to submit their own contributions, you should allow them all the tools they could get to deliver the best result. I don't know what kind of 'misuse' you are afraid of. It seems they could do little harm other than wrecking their own page. For which they probably would not need JavaScript.
If you want to minimize the work involved in policing, the submission form could get another checkbox "Using JavaScript" similar to the one we have now for "Using HTML tags", so that the editors reviewing the submission are made immediately aware whether they are dealing with a page that is static, or one with one that might contain surprises, and deserves some closer inspection.