Re: Help needed for screenshots

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> I think moving the weblabels table to a separate page would be good.  It
> clutters the page footer.  If users *really* want to see the licenses
> and links to individual source files, they can click a link in the
> footer that brings them to the table.  However, LibreJS exists because
> most users *aren't* going to check that the JavaScript is free before
> running it, so we automate the process.
>
> I understand the rationale for weblabels, but I think they are a bad
> technical decision that has caused me lots of annoying issues when they
> mysteriously don't work.  I would much prefer a terse JSON
> representation of this data intended for a program to read.  Why scrape
> a web page when you have other options?  Why enforce markup restrictions
> on web developers?

Yeah I have mixed feelings.  On one hand, I sympathize with the
rationale of making it prominent that it’s not just a “page” but also
software that’s being distributed.  On the other hand, less clutter is
better.

All in all, I’m happy to apply a patch that would move it to a different
page, or make it smaller and light-grey, something like that.

Ludo’.