On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:39:07PM -0800, Scott Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:03:08PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > > Are they? The safest thing is certainly to block anything we don't
> > > understand.
> > 
> > True, ideally we should be using something like JTidy to parse the HTML 
> > to XML, then filter it, then spit it out to the browser.  The JTidy jar 
> > is 142k, but this will slow things down.  Additionally, I think JTidy 
> > relies on the XML stuff in post-1.1 versions of Java.
> No, actually it doesn't.  But it certainly could be a CPU drain on
> slower machines.  Then again, its only going to be a couple of seconds
> and only for user-initiated browsing.
Yeah. Security trumps usability on hardware that is three generations
out of date. As always.
> 
>       Scott



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