On Friday, 21 July, 2017 20:05, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> said: >> On Jul 21, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Keith Medcalf <[email protected]> >> wrote:
>> Just using a web browser has your machine executing god only knows >> what code generated by god only knows who doing god only knows what >> to your computer. Unless you have disabled that, of course. But >> that makes the web almost completely unuseable >Well, JavaScript is sandboxed. And I think most people would take >issue with the assertion that the web is unusable. Not very well. How do you think "drive by downloads" work? Javascript in browsers is the most dangerous thing ever invented! So, if you have disabled Javascript entirely the Web is *not* almost completely unuseable? You must only visit websites run by the competent, because 90% of the web sites visited will be completely blank if Javascript is disabled. Google even displays the message "Once you remove all the malware, nothing remains". >> And people who use squirrily quotes should fix their email client … >“These”? They're true quotation marks. The straight kind was only >invented later, for typewriters, just to save a key; they’ve never >been acceptable in anything but typewritten documents. (The early >typewriters also didn’t have a “1” because you could use a lowercase >“l”, or a “0” because you could use an “O”. That got remedied later, >but they kept the ugly quotes.) Nonetheless. If you permit your email client to use squirrily quotes then anything that you type in a message cannot be cut and pasted into any "normal" software, command prompt, client, or programming language source file without having to have the quotes all fixed up. Same with replacing -- with an em-dash. And no, the squirrily quotes are typeset quotes. They are meant for typeset publications. Computer code is not a typesetting application. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
