On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:06:38PM +0200, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: > > Ofc, some internet sites do provide services which are hard dependent > > on a rich GUI (I usually mention soundcloud). > > Actually audio and video playback these days can be done with pure HTML > markup, which is sufficient for a completely bare-bones SoundCloud or > YouTube replacement, no JS needed.
When mentioning souldcloud, I usually refer to the "sound editing" feature. They have a web API, but I cannot tell if the mobile app auth web page is noscript... and even with that, I cannot create an account without a modern web engine or even log in using an existing user account... For youtube, we agree 100%, but it seems that the javascript/modern web engine combo is used as a kind of DRM... namely the dependency by complexity is _on purpose_ (see the user agreement of youtube: you MUST use the javascript/modern web engine video player. That's of course is abusive and massively evil). <video> and <audio> pointing to a simple dash manifest is enough. BTW, some of the fast degenerating internet sites are those from google. For instance, some critical account operations cannot be done without the javascript/modern web engine combo. cheers, -- Sylvain
