Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

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On Thu 19 August 2010 15:01:17 Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Sorry, but I don't think exposing our users to remote arbitrary code
> > execution (!) vulnerabilities just to make web apps a bit faster is a
> > reasonable tradeoff.
> 
> Kevin, if you took off your FSF blindfold you would see that it's better
> for web sites to use JavaScript. If they complied to /your/ wishes we
> would have a thousand proprietary protocols, probably all /closed/
> source, to communicate in between /closed/ source applications. Most
> likely Microsoft or another Closed Source vendor would create a protocol
> standard that applications would adopt, and you yourself would probably
> have to write to! In this situation we have to choose the lesser of two
> evils instead of no evils.

You should meet my friend Chicken Little.

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