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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked?
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"Gautier write-only" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Mar 1, 12:39 pm, Thomas L�cke wrote:

>> I do think the Javascript engine is going to be a bit of a beast to get
>> right.

>Oooh s***. I forgot Javascript... Buuuh!

I would sort of want to forget Javascript. :-)

When I seriously considered this sort of project 10 years ago, I wanted it 
specifically so that I had a browser that *couldn't* run Javascript or 
various other "dangerous" things, such that I could use it for browsing 
without worrying much about drive-by downloads and the like.

But I eventually decided that getting the page layouts right enough to be 
useful would be a real bear (consider the complexity of CSS), and decided to 
just write a text URL getter (which lets me see what the spammers are doing 
without any significant risk of executing anything).

The NoScript plugin does about 90% of what I wanted anyway, and without 
writing a browser.

                             Randy.