Bill Davidsen wrote:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Phillip Jones schrieb:
As I said, It ain't going to happen, Unless someone comes up with an
extension to add it back. And that not going to pass with the mozilla
big-wigs. They don't want it.
An extension probably cannot change this, what it would need would be
a thorough security review of the affected code. It's not about
wanting or not wanting it, it's about being able to guarantee
security. This seems to be a concept that a number of people here
don't seem to grasp anyhow, or intentionally neglect.
The concept missed is that's its OUR computer. No one is asking you to
guarantee security or anything else, we just want the option of JS on a
per-newsgroup or rss feed basis. I agree it should be turned off, I'm
comfortable that the option to turn it on have all sorts of warnings,
but you sound like a mix of Microsodft and a smothering mother, saying
that you know whats best. It's one thing to to leave a feature out
because it isn't in TB or FF, but to take away user choice is a
different thing.
No JS as a global option is a prudent choice, no way to turn it on in
trusted environments is removal of a feature some of us find useful.
People who ignore the warning and want it on either know what they are
doing, or should be allowed to take themselves out of the gene pool.
While I agree 100% with your evaluation (particularly about culling the
herd of idiots that compromise their own machine without knowing what
they're doing), I can see the flip side of the argument.
That idiot that enables JS and catches malware because of it is going to
look for someone to blame other than him/herself. The likely target
will be SM and the SM developers.
So my suspicion is that SM is doing some defensive PR by not including
the capability to read JS. They're avoiding the headline: "SeaMonkey
is insecure because it can enable JS". Nevermind the real cause: that
idiot.
Not justifying SM's position on this, but just speculating on the
motive. Probably a business decision.
BJ
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