- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:47:27 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
At 12:13 AM 8/4/00 -0700, Rowland Shaw wrote: >To highly abbreviate Simon's message, and to counter his argument -- the >scripting facilities in Microsoft Office were intended for legitimate >developers, but 'Script Kiddies' used it to create some of the fastest >spreading viruses everywhere... Microsoft has done a crappy job of providing security. That doesn't mean that all scripting is bad. Connecting the browser directly to OS internals probably is a bad idea, though. Scripts don't deserve this reputation problem... >If BECSS makes it into a browser on my machine, I'd hope I'd have the >ability to disable the behaviours within it. I'd certainly expect you'd be able to. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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