> What's the point of it? What's the alternative? An absurd, idiotic situation that is endemic to the whole industry deserves every bit of scorn and ridicule.

> What's the point of it? What's the alternative? An absurd, idiotic situation that is endemic to the whole industry deserves every bit of scorn and ridicule. Developers need to be educated about this so they can make the right choices, instead of remaining complacent agents of a shameful situation. It also strengthens my own resolve to support (through my use) those websites that abide by the original principles of the web: they either deliver actual documents (instead of javascript apps), or offer public APIs to access the plaintext data. There is always an alternative out there.