On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:25:04AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:53:36 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 09:37 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : 
> > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:17:58AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > > What’s a bookmarklet? I don’t even know whether epiphany supports this. 
> > > 
> > > It's javascript code you bookmark and can run on any site. A bit like
> > > greasemonkey, but crossbrowser. It's designed to run in the current
> > > page context, so the security issue here is by design. 
> > 
> > Confirmation before saving the bookmarklet to the list of bookmarks? If
> > so, I’d say epiphany is not affected, since it always ask for
> > confirmation whenever you bookmark something.
> 
> right, but the current dialog doesn't throw up a scary warning saying
> that the bookmark contains potentially dangerous javascript, so some
> work would need to be done to implement that.
> 
> or, the "safer" solution would be to disallow javascript in bookmarks.
> who in their right mind needs that (anti)feature anyway???

It's a very useful feature. There has been some kind of DOM inspector in
such bookmarks way before firebug existed, and it has the advantage of
being cross browsers.



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