Re: Spyglass HTML Validator 1.0 Availability from David Perrell on 1996-10-18 (www-html@w3.org from October 1996)

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 07:56:10 -0700
To: "F. E. Potts" <fepotts@fepco.com>
Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <199610181503.IAA05433@armenia.it.earthlink.net>

F. E. Potts wrote:
> I am not even gonna get into the security questions of JavaScript
> except to note that this too is gonna be hard to ignore).

Have there been security problems with JavaScript? I thought JavaScript
was pretty innocuous, seeing as how it's just human-readable statements
interpreted by the UA that only affect the display. Are you not
thinking of Java programs?

David P

Received on Friday, 18 October 1996 11:03:37 UTC