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On 4/23/2014 8:39 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On the other hand I don't think JavaScript has any sort of sandbox at
> all, and everyone blissfully runs scripts that can do anything.

JavaScript runs in a sandbox, but as far as I know it isn't very 
restrictive.  I think there's like a 4 megabyte limit *per site* for the 
amount of data it can store on your hard drive, for example.

But yes I agree "something is going on."  FireFox OS is what is going 
on, and anything that runs in a browser that competes with it is being 
extinguished by Brenden Eich and company.