On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 23:29:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/28/2018 1:50 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Safety - not so much.
I remember back in the olden dayz when Microsoft was pushing
ActiveX controls hard. ActiveX controls were blobs of code
automatically downloaded from the internet that were embedded
in your spreadsheet, word document, etc.
What could possibly go wrong? :-)
I remember it... I even used some :)
And it was efficient!
But look at it today - many websites are basically a huge program
running in a sandbox. And with more APIs they don’t need a
particular page open to run in background and many other
limitations are lifted.
Still don’t understand why code signing became required on
desktop, but not in the web.
