Simetrical wrote:
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@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 =:-)