From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked?
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:36:09 +0100
Date: 2011-03-07T05:36:09+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vryhqjvrule2fv@douda-yannick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.WNT.2.00.1103011448150.1264@WHIRLWIND
Le Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:53:15 +0100, Peter C. Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
a écrit:
> With the rise of HTML5 and related technologies, it seems to me that a
> nice Ada project would be an HTML5 rendering engine along with whatever
> else is needed to make that work (probably a lot... but I don't know
> much about HTML5). HTML5 is new and sexy and a viable Ada effort to
> support it would put Ada in front of many people who currently know
> nothing about the language. One could even imagine implementing the
> "security critical" parts in SPARK. That would certainly be value added
> relative to the usual crop of C++ browsers.
I'm afraid nobody would care. What made FireFox popular among
self-so-called “geeks”, was plugins (Mozilla get a lot of free advertising
via buzzes generated by the plugins/addons fever). Just a very few little
people are interested in application source, even more true with a
browser. What matters is (ordered by relevancy): 1) is it free to download
? 2) will this play YouTube and DailyMotion medias fine ? 3) Will this
help me to look “geeky” or “fashioned” in others eyes ?
P.S.1. HTML5 is still not in a mature stage.
P.S.2. If JavaScript appeared to be unsafe, this was primarily because it
was a first target to attack. I am not sure even SPARK would be enough to
prevent all troubles when so much energy is dedicated to break security
(that's not just a matter of things like buffer overflows or out-of-range
values).
--
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les chiens.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 1:44 Can Ada be hacked? Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-01 2:15 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-01 7:01 ` Numerical software in Ada (was: Re: Can Ada be hacked?) Dirk Craeynest
2011-03-18 8:19 ` Numerical software in Ada Simon Wright
2011-03-01 7:41 ` Can Ada be hacked? Shark8
2011-03-01 9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-01 8:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-07 4:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-09 9:10 ` Lucretia
2011-03-09 9:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01 11:17 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 11:39 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-01 12:00 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 15:06 ` Shark8
2011-03-01 15:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-02 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 12:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-01 15:40 ` Julian Leyh
2011-03-01 18:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-01 18:13 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 23:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-04 18:15 ` Tero Koskinen
2011-03-04 20:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-05 1:14 ` Shark8
2011-03-07 4:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-02 0:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 19:53 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 4:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2011-03-07 4:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 11:57 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 13:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 18:05 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 18:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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