Thanks for lightening up this thread... ( I had to hold myself down after reading
"OJ certified not guilty")
Much needed/appreciated laughter aside: you make a good point. The sense of security when in fact anyone with ill intentions will find a way around it... etc. can be more dangerous...
Then where do we go from here?
Seems we saying:
a) no please people, be smart, do not distribute MC engine as a player and
b) do not create a tool that will auto set *.mc docs to auto boot from either
i. the mc engine itself
ii. some stand alone we might create with the engine embedded.
"there is no difference" (between a and b) you said.
OK, then if that IS what we are saying (I am losing sight a bit of what each of you wizards thinks we can/should or should not do. except for Chipp who seems fairly adamant about being very careful.)
Then where do we go from here?
If we back off for a moment from the goal of "ubiquitous as Acrobat" then
one middle ground for now seems clear: at least you can distribute a standalone
whose duty is not to download and run just any stacks, but only those that we
create and which it calls for. Then we use the web to deliver that standalone. As we do now from
www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/
(fyi, that technology there is 2 years old... (2.3.2) need to upgrade it all but I want to understand all this first.)
or, Andu, do you mean to imply "No, go ahead and distribute the engine... there will always be a risk, no matter what you think you can do to secure it."
mmm. Scott Raney are you lurking? Please do jump in!
Happy Holidays to all!
Sivakatirswami
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 08:09 AM, andu wrote:
Here's a less microsoftian solution for a "sane" MC helper application for browsers:
make a stack which opens off screen or invisible with something like...
on startup
answer "Ready to format your hard drive??"\
with "OK" and "Cancel"
if it is "Cancel" then quit
exit startup
Move the answer dialog into the stack, save and make it a standalone. Use this standalone as the helper application instead of MC engine and send me $300 every year.
Regards, Andu Novac
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