GNU bug report logs - #51712
29.0.50; [PATCH] New function `xwidget-webkit-load-html'

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Message #61 received at 51712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 51712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51712: 29.0.50;
 [PATCH] New function `xwidget-webkit-load-html'
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 22:37:59 -0500

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  > It's JS written by me included in Emacs.

Running free JS code included in Emacs is not, in itself, a bad thing.
JS is not inherently worse than any other language.

But it presupposes that there is a JS interpreter in Emacs, and
including that would be taking a big moral risk.  Users are likely to
use it to run nonfree JS sent by web sites.  We must should not make
Emacs into a platform for that.  It would corrupt the purpose of
Emacs.

Web browsers which can run Javascript from web sites should take steps
to block the Javascript programs which are nonfree.

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