On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 12, 2013 10:08 PM, "Brian Wolff" bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to actually do it.
For security purposes, I'm really hoping we don't plan on using a Java applet. :P
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Why? There's nothing inherently insecure about java applets. We already use them to play ogg files on lame browsers that don't support html5.
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Can you say that for sure? With the number of exploits in Java over the past few months, everybody I know has already disabled their browser plugin.
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Those types of people will probably have an html5 capable web browser :P
Let me rephrase my previous statement as, using java as a fallback doesn't introduce any new issues that wouldn't be already there if we didn't use java as a fallback. (Since we'd only fallback to java if the user already had it installed). Furthermore, I imagine (or hope at least) that oracle fixes the security vulnerabilities of their plugin as they are discovered.
-bawolff