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I upvoted you, but I want to add my voice too. The web succeeded in part because it was possible for anyone to do "view source" and see what was going on under
by acabal 11y ago
I upvoted you, but I want to add my voice too.
The web succeeded in part because it was possible for anyone to do "view source" and see what was going on under the hood.
Having that source available is also an important aspect of software freedom.
Losing all that--especially the freedom to see exactly what your browser is executing--for a slight speed increase is ludicrous and I'm very, very sad to see this is being taken so seriously.
We had a huge opportunity here to shape an open and free web. Turning the web into nothing more than a binary distribution platform will undo decades of work and we may never again find ourselves in the lucky confluence of economic prosperity, technological advancement, and governmental benign neglect, that made the open web possible.