Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Article: Why you can't dump Java (even though you want to) Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 16:01:07 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: JFgm6aMVwmC/YQNQyUTYRQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14422 On 5/8/2012 3:51 PM, markspace wrote: > On 5/8/2012 1:36 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >> On 5/8/2012 3:14 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote: >> >>> >>> The main problem is the human being, whether coder or user. >>> >>> AHS >> >> There are now Trojans and viruses that attack the PC >> using JavaScript. >> >> One can't really shut down JavaScript in the browser like they can >> with the Java plugin to prevent applets from running. > > > Yes you can. I run Firefox with NoScript, an add-on that blocks > JavaScript. Most sites work OK without JavaScript. If I really need > to, NoScript makes it easy for me to temporarily enable a single website. > > In some cases, the problem is the platform. I.e., JavaScript, or > ActiveX. But there's work-arounds too. > Well, I know I can turn off Javascript from firefox, it is easy. Tools->Options->Content->uncheck Javascript. The point is, browsing the internet is almost useless when JavaScript is off. How will you browse Yahoo, Google, etc.. with no JavaScript? Many things do not work any more. Some do yes, but many things needs JavaScript to work. It feels like driving a car with no wheels attached to it. Not a fun thing to do. --Nasser