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JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful

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Yes, it’s a problem, but ease of implementation will always trump best practices. Want a better solution? Get a standard going, get it adopted by publishers and get plugins created for all platforms to support it; then you might see some change. What, that sounds hard? Yeah…

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Posted February 12th, 2007 @ 1:27 PM

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Jeremy Zawodny adds this Comment:

“ease of implementation will always trump best practices”

Agreed. They’re here to stay, like it or not.

February 12th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Dan Coulter adds this Comment:

I’m actually curious what kinds of solutions the brilliant minds of the internet could come up with. That’s how we got OpenID, which isn’t yet trumping the ease of implementing username/password pairs, but some change is happening.

February 12th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
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