On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 12, 2013 10:08 PM, "Brian Wolff" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually >> >> considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to >> >> actually do it. >> >> >> > >> > For security purposes, I'm really hoping we don't plan on using a Java >> > applet. :P >> > >> > *--* >> > *Tyler Romeo* >> > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 >> > Major in Computer Science >> > www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> Why? There's nothing inherently insecure about java applets. We >> already use them to play ogg files on lame browsers that don't support >> html5. >> >> --bawolff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > Can you say that for sure? With the number of exploits in Java over the > past few months, everybody I know has already disabled their browser plugin. > > --Tyler Romeo > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Those types of people will probably have an html5 capable web browser :P Let me rephrase my previous statement as, using java as a fallback doesn't introduce any new issues that wouldn't be already there if we didn't use java as a fallback. (Since we'd only fallback to java if the user already had it installed). Furthermore, I imagine (or hope at least) that oracle fixes the security vulnerabilities of their plugin as they are discovered. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
