Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java vs JavaScript Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:15:01 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.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; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28209 On 4/23/2014 11:39 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > There is something odd going on. > > I have always thought the Java sandbox was so restrictive, there was > nothing a user need worry about. There is no way an unsigned applet > could do any damage. > > But Oracle and the browsers are acting like unsigned Applets are > highly dangerous, making you do override after override to run them. I have commented in detail to your various other posts; the truth is out there! > > 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. I suggest/recommend/insist the dinosaurs here at java-IS-the-new-cobol read the following several times over: - https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI As usual the cognoscente here do not know what they are talking about :-( WebApps have moved on but they'll never replace the functionality Applets provide out-of-the-box! > > Why the double standard? Is JavaScript safer than I thought? > Google, Apple, and Microsoft say Larry is a fat lazy vain old bitch who is too tired to defend his patch.