[Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:31:04AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm not happy when web sites *demand* that you run their untrusted and
>> > untrustworthy code in your computer before you can see the content.
>>
>> How do you currently see the HTML content before it is interpreted by
>> your computer?
>
> This is increasingly getting less and less on-topic,  but to give a brief
> answer, HTML is a markup language, not a programming language. (I'm
> aware that technically HTML5 + CSS is Turing complete, but it's
> completely impractical as a programming language.) Web devs use
> Javascript because it allows them to run more or less arbitrary code,
> which is either impossible or impossibly difficult from HTML alone.
>
> While it is possible that buggy or malicious HTML alone might crash my
> browser, it is far easier and more likely to do so from Javascript.

So, you do want to see the HTML content before it is interpreted by
your computer?  :-)

Look, your JS vs HTML argument is cloudy at best.  :-)

-Jim P.