[Techtalk] why is Active X in web pages evil, but not Perl/PHP/Javascript?

Meredith L. Patterson mlp at thesmartpolitenerd.com
Thu Jan 20 06:22:36 EST 2005


Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> That sounds like java not javascript.  AFAIK, Javascript is interspersed
> throughout an html document and the browser interprets it from the text.

D'oh; you're right, and I wasn't reading carefully. I was looking at the 
W3C's FAQ page at http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf2.html, and I 
conflated what they were saying about applets with what they were saying 
about JScript.

#include <iostream>
int main() {
     for (int i=0; i<500; ++i) {
         std::cout << "I will read carefully before talking out my 
ass" \			<< std::endl;
     }
}

--mlp



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