Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Ary Manzana]

On 03/11/2012 05:47 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "H. S. Teoh"<hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.454.1331448329.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:14:26PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "H. S. Teoh"<hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  wrote in message
>>> news:mailman.447.1331426602.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> [...]
>>>> In the past, I've even used UserJS to *edit* the site's JS on the
>>>> fly to rewrite stupid JS code (like replace sniffBrowser() with a
>>>> function that returns true, bwahahaha) while leaving the rest of the
>>>> site functional.  I do not merely hate Javascript, I fight it, kill
>>>> it, and twist it to my own sinister ends.>:-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I admire that :) Personally, I don't have the patience. I just bitch
>>> and moan :)
>>
>> Well, that was in the past. Nowadays they've smartened up (or is it
>> dumbened down?) with the advent of JS obfuscators. Which, OT1H, is silly
>> because anything that the client end can run will eventually be cracked,
>> so it actually doesn't offer *real* protection in the first place, and
>> OTOH annoying 'cos I really can't be bothered to waste the time and
>> effort to crack some encrypted code coming from some shady site that
>> already smells of lousy design and poor implementation anyway.
>>
>> So I just leave and never come back to the site.
>>
>
> I'd prefer to do that (leave and never come back), but unfortunately, the
> modern regression of tying data/content to the interface often makes that
> impossible:
>
> For example, I can't see what materials my library has available, or manage
> my own library account, without using *their* crappy choice of software.
> It's all just fucking data! Crap, DBs are an age-old thing.
>
> Or, I'd love to be able leave GitHub and never come back. But DMD is on
> GitHub, so I can't create/browse/review pull requests, check what public
> forks are available, etc., without using GitHub's piece of shit site.
>
> I'd love to leave Google Code, Google Docs and YouTube and never come back,
> but people keep posting their content on those shitty sites which,
> naturally, prevent me from accessing said content in any other way.
>
> Etc...
>
> And most of that is all just because some idiots decided to start treating a
> document-transmission medium as an applications platform.
>
> I swear to god, interoperability was better in the 80's.
>
> (And jesus christ, *Google Docs*?!? How the fuck did we ever get a document
> platform *ON TOP* of a fucking *DOCUMENT PLATFORM* and have people actually
> *TAKE IT SERIOUSLY*!?! Where the hell was I when they started handing out
> the free crazy-pills?)

Nick, how would you implement (protocols, architecture, whatever) an 
online document editor?