Joe Rotello schrieb:
We have seen this "disable of one, some or all" of the mentioned standards, Flash, PHP, JavaScript, even Java, happen, was the point, but I have no wish or predilection for such to be done, as "web havoc" with a side-order of "user fearanoia" always ensues.
Flash, PHP and Java are not standards. And even JavaScript isn't under that name, as the standard is called ECMAScript.
Still, you already handled PHP in there, it's server-side and not anything the client/browser needs to or even can care about. There's cases of server-side Java, for which the same applies. There's also websites running with Python (django, etc.), perl, node.js or any other number of technologies, which all are opaque to the user and nothing you ever need to care about unless you are operating web servers, and in this case you only need to worry about what you are operating there, not what others might run.
Flash and Java "applets" are browser plugins, essentially non-web-technology black boxes inside a web page, and in those black boxes there are binary third-party non-standard applications rendering some content that isn't accessible to the browser or web technologies. This was a good idea for prototyping some functionality that earlier web browsers weren't able to do, but nowadays we (all browser vendors) are catching up fast with actual web technologies (HTML5 and friends) there, making the same kind of features better controllable for users (as browser functionality, prefs and add-ons like GreaseMonkey can access them) as well as easier to integrate in the experience of a website. We are at a point where those proprietary "black" boxes in websites like Flash and Java are increasingly unnecessary. Unfortunately, they're still around en masse, esp. in the case of Flash.
If you think you only need it rarely, or only on specific sites, it may be a good idea to try the experimental "click to play" feature that Firefox 14, SeaMonkey 2.11 and newer versions have integrated in a slightly hidden way (because it is experimental after all) - see the blog post of the developer when he first landed it for how to activate this feature: http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/opting-in-to-plugins-in-firefox/
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