Fortunately, if there are virus's ever designed in js 99% of them will effect MS Windows machines. Which is another reason I have put alot of time and energy into Linux. There are of course a couple of worms that can take down a Linux system, but that number is a microscopic example of the 50,000 Windows worms, virus's, and other system destroyers out there. Unfortunately, js is here to stay as far as the academic world of CS is concerned, and we have to be willing to use it or simply not use that site. ----- Original Message ----- From: Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Web Browsers with Javascript? > Steve: > > I am not aware of any js support available to us. Perhaps Mozilla 6, when > we finally get access to GNOME. You are correct that it is becoming very > difficult to use the web without js. > > On the other hand, do we really want to allow js into our machines? Are we > really willing to let any old web site execute code on our machines? Isn't > js a security vulnerability waiting to happen? I rather think someone will > devise some kind of virus delivered via js before two many more years go > by. What then? Will the press run stories like "How come they didn't tell > us?" > > > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > This may be old hat by now but I just want to be sure. Are there any > > accessible browsers for Linux that support javascript? I know lynx doesn't > > and I doubt w3 for Emacs does either. I think javascript is here to stay > > and I am emensely disappointed that lynx has never gotten javascript going > > in their development. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
