> HTML5 promises a lot but doesn't (yet?) seem to deliver much more than was > available (with IE) back around 2005.
IMO, delivering standard features (that 80% browsers can read) is far richer than anything proprietary ... > Every advance to richer content falls at the same hurdle - security. Never saw any security issue with JavaScript ... can't even access the user's disk > One of the potentially most promising (if ugh!) was vbscript at the browser > but its dependence on ActiveX and access to Windows objects like FSO, WMI > makes it a security no-no, add no cross-browser support and that finishes it. Yeah, VBscript in the browser is dead ... and that's great > Some browsers now offer xmlhttp which was one of IE's strengths but the > same-source rule is a big restriction (the limited exceptions are really only > useful in an intranet environment, where they are unnecessarily cumbersome). The server can make any request to another domain: browser > AJAX > server > request to another domain > get response > sanitize response and send back to browser > I do wonder whether the only way to offer rich content at the browser is by > using custom browsers securely linked to in-house (or in-cloud) servers. In > which case you might as well use VFP! Certainly not the only way to achieve this! Thierry Nivelet FoxinCloud Give your VFP app a new life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
