Trust issues wouldn't be that tricky, I don't
think, at least from our
point of view. Admins could already do some fairly nasty stuff
privacy-wise via Javascript, right? Trackers and so on. Hell, they
could probably take over the computers of 10% of our viewers, who are
doubtless using some atrociously vulnerable version of IE from about
three years ago. Anyone trustworthy enough to send the client
arbitrary Javascript is probably trustworthy enough to send the client
arbitrary Java.
On 8/21/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Discuss, don't bitch about "zomg use
JavaScript" instead; that's as
bad as all the half-assed shouting about rewriting MediaWiki in
brainfuck.
Hey, Javascript is Turing-complete and has full access to the
browser's I/O. What *can't* you do with it? :P
Okay, fair enough question.
But before I go off "into the deep" to figure that out, does this
question entail that JavaScript sections for the purpose of running
interactive labs *will* be accepted? It seems to me (as you discuss
above) that we will have the exact same issues of auditing/approving of
these scripts to avoid any malware being inserted. If this is case, why
risk the possible constraints and performance loss by not going for
applets right away?
Andreas =:-)