I don't have anything very useful to say, but I wanted to correct my
previous comment that installing the new update of Java probably made
things ok. The recent Java update appears to have major security holes.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/critical-bug-discovered-in-newest-java/
Aaron
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Nina Jeliazkova <jeliazkova.n...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Interesting thread. While I agree Java is becoming not convenient in a
> web browser, anyone who thinks the modern HTML5 & Javascript based
> technologies are more secure, should consider these readings.
>
>
> http://www.trendmicro.com/cloud-content/us/pdfs/security-intelligence/reports/rpt_html5-attack-scenarios.pdf
>
> http://media.hacking-lab.com/hlnews/HTML5_Web_Security_v1.0.pdf
>
> I don't have statistics at the moment, but am aware from previous security
> training that the majority of security breaches of web systems are not Java
> applet or Java related, but are rather related to server side issues.
> Computer network professionals know for long that the most secure computer
> is the one which is disconnected from the network. Is this what we need ?
>
> Best regards,
> Nina
>
> On 31 August 2012 18:17, Craig James <cja...@emolecules.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>> >> Rich Apodaca advocates a cool solution for the browser problem:
>> >> Compile Java code into Javascript:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://depth-first.com/articles/2009/01/06/javascript-for-cheminformatics-cross-compiling-java-to-javascript-with-gwt-revisited/
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this is a good solution: real Java for server apps,
>> >> Java-to-JavaScript for browser applets.
>> >
>> >
>> > Certainly it makes sense if it works.
>> >
>> > I first hacked Javascript umpteen years ago, wrote a molecular browser
>> and
>> > it worked (slowly) and lasted about 3 months until "browser upgrades"
>> killed
>> > it. JS is a lot better now and if I need(ed) it I'll have a strong
>> look. I
>> > like SVG very much and for lightweight 2D apps it works for me.
>>
>> Anyone who doubts the power and stability of JavaScript should
>> consider Rich's ChemWriter II, which is a JavaScript app. We get many
>> thousands of users every day using every possible browser/OS
>> combination you can imagine, and ChemWriter just works. An added
>> bonus: unlike Java Applets, ChemWriter uses ordinary CSS style sheets,
>> so we can easily customize it. And the whole thing is less than 210
>> KBytes.
>>
>> Craig
>>
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