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The fact that JavaScript would break on networks that transparently rewrite JavaScript is a feature, not a bug. If hash codes were implemented by all major browsers, those networks which tamper with JavaScript would have to stop doing so pretty damn quickly, or face a lot of angry customers.

As it is, I think customers would already be angry if they knew that their network provider was rewriting code that will be executed on the customer's computer; anything which makes this more obvious can only be good.




I'm afraid users would be angry, but they would be angry at me. Blame is assigned to the last thing to move.

I'm not claiming that this is good, but it is the reality of writing browsers.




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