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A Firefox zero-day vulnerabilityA Firefox zero-day vulnerabilityPosted Oct 28, 2010 22:33 UTC (Thu) by brugolsky (subscriber, #28)In reply to: A Firefox zero-day vulnerability by anselm Parent article: A Firefox zero-day vulnerability
I'm aware of the history, which makes it all the worse, since plenty of folks understood that it was a terrible hack, and yet it was enshrined as a de facto standard anyway, when the web was young. Essentially zero thought given to document semantics, security, location transparency, RTT latency, ..., despite the history of 3270, X11, NeWS, LISP machines, etc.
So now we have huge application stacks built on a wildly divergent array of technologies that each should have received at best a middling grade on a two-week-long undergraduate CS assignment and then gone into the trash bin.
Sometimes worse really is just plain worse. :-/
-Bill
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A Firefox zero-day vulnerability Posted Oct 28, 2010 23:09 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] Yes, but at the time the only viable alternative would have been VBscript (or something similar out of Microsoft), so maybe we can count ourselves lucky after all.
A Firefox zero-day vulnerability Posted Oct 28, 2010 23:21 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
remember that it's primary competition at the early stages was Active X
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