Re: Why not Javascript ? WAS: Python FILTER "PLUGIN"?

On 09.11.2006 17:45 Andreas M. wrote

> What about Javascript ? Not, that I would oppose Python possibilities in
> Privoxy, but I think, that Javascript would be even cooler, since it is
> the native scripting language for HTML, and that is, what we are in need
> to filter.
> 
> I may be technically too illiterate to comment on this, but to me there
> seems to be a possibility to run the javascript on the DOM (or
> elsewhere) even /before/ it reaches the browser. Since Privoxy now could
> interpret the Javascript on behalf of the browser, it could react
> similare to the browser, but do some "rewrites" according to JS-filters,
> so, that the browser still gets the Javascript needed in order for the
> page to function correctly while the special javascript-filter
> anonymizes and/or rewrites privacy problematic stuff/annoyances.
> 
> This seems to be much more sensitive to me than a regular expressions
> based approach. A bit like Network Address Translation (just the
> schema). Javascript Content Translation, so to say.
> 
> Another benefit may be, that some of us could drop lots of interesting
> Firefox extensions, that add certain functionalities to web-pages, such
> as BetterShopper, BetterSearch and similare. Saves startup-time for FF
> with many extensions.
> 
> While there seems to be many possibilities with regex in this regard,
> this could do even more, since it is much more dynamic and does not need
> to be based on fixed patterns.


No comments on this ?

-- 
Bye, Andreas

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