Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Article: Why you can't dump Java (even though you want to) Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 06:58:52 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4fa9c272$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:58:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="03ebLEozl+tXCe7JS60Feg"; logging-data="18908"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OC2VADwyXczdhIhmLboTX" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:3GrDjeY0Jorry3Am9JGjWfjy5G4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14447 On 5/8/2012 11:52 PM, markspace wrote: > On 5/8/2012 6:03 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> That worked fine 10 years ago. >> >> In these AJAX times the number of sites working without >> JavaScript must be dropping pretty steep. > > > A lot of sites don't work without JavaScript enabled. But many work well > enough. It's a matter of playing the odds. The more sites you go to with > JavaScript disabled by default, the less likely it is that you'll get > some sort of malware from them. For even more security, disable HTML. -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid