Mathias Bauer wrote:
... OOo could specify that it never puts macros into documents nor executes any of them at any time. That would be enough. Again, I'm afraid this could make users angry.
FWIW, I would not be in favor of forbidding macros in documents--I can see a use for them and I'm sure it would be a showstopper for some folks--I would only suggest that it not be the most convenient path. Give people a more secure alternative, give it a higher profile and make it easier to use, that's enough.
It would be fantastic if there were also a macro environment that could do the kinds of things that are appropriate for macros-in-documents (add a menu, process the document text) and yet is guaranteed to have no access to other things--like Javascript in a web page.
Something like this does not have to be a complicated sandbox around BASIC. It could be a different scripting language or a modified BASIC that would be designed to completely exclude those facilities.
The Javascript model works very well for the 'net (think how much better security FF/Javascript has over IE/ActiveX), why can't it work for OOo?
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