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... and a "go fuck yourself" to anybody who publishes pages that simply don't require source maps to begin with? I admit that would at least be in line with the current trend of prioritizing/encouraging the kinds of authors and publishers who engage in (the mess of) what is considered "good" modern Web development.


I mean, I think the whole idea of only showing websites with unminified source available is silly, but I'm willing to think about the idea ;)

I think a source map is a better approach than a GitHub link, is was all I was saying!

It also probably wouldn't be too hard to make some heuristics to figure out whether scripts are unminified and not require a source map. It wouldn't be 100% accurate, and it wouldn't avoid some form of intentional obfuscation that still uses long names for things, but it would probably work pretty well.


Refer to <https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/> (caveat: very broken and currently under-resourced; see <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-librejs>).

> a source map is a better approach than a GitHub link

def.




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