On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:37:56 +0100, Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > How about getting the people in charge of deciding what format to publish > > content in, to not use crappy, security hole ridden, propietary formats. > > The main competitors are Java and Silverlight. Neither seems > particularly appealing. > > Some things you can replace with either plain embedded video or AJAX, > but not everything. For normal web browsing, you shouldn't need to use Java, Silverlight or Javascript. All of those are too powerful to let random web sites execute on your local machine. It's different if a trusted server is using your browser as an app platform. I am not a great fan of that either because there aren't great tools in Firefox to separate sites into ones that are providing trusted apps as opposed to everyone else. (Noscript comes close, but seems a bit fragile to me.) This can be an inexpensive way to provide apps that run on a lot of platforms, so I see why people do it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
