Z:gnu-www-ja-javascript-trap--ce2f69-A strong movement has develope/en

A strong movement has developed that calls for web sites to communicate only through formats and protocols that are free (some say &quot;open&quot;); that is to say, whose documentation is published and which anyone is free to implement. With the presence of programs in web pages, that criterion is necessary, but not sufficient. JavaScript itself, as a format, is free, and use of JavaScript in a web site is not necessarily bad. However, as we've seen above, it also isn't necessarily OK. When the site transmits a program to the user, it is not enough for the program to be written in a documented and unencumbered language; that program must be free, too. &ldquo;Only free programs transmitted to the user&rdquo; must become part of the criterion for proper behavior by web sites.