Web Browsers with Javascript?

[Kirk Wood]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> On the other hand, do we really want to allow js into our machines? Are we 
> really willing to let any old web site execute code on our machines? Isn't 
> js a security vulnerability waiting to happen? I rather think someone will 
> devise some kind of virus delivered via js before two many more years go 
> by. What then? Will the press run stories like "How come they didn't tell 
> us?"

If implimented the way it was intended it is safe. It is a scripting
language intended to be limited to working with the current document and
data associated therein. There has been a "virus" using javascript. It
used the evil "Windows Scripting Host" that macroslop so ingeniously
introduced quietly so nobody would realize.

Code is already run when you view a web page. The reality is that the html
tags are in effect scripting for the page.

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Kirk Wood
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