Re: IAOC Seeks Community Input on IETF Website Revamp SOW

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(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> 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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