Apologies for throwing a spanner in the works but what about pop up ad blockers and also people automatically closing the window themselves. I seem to have developed pop up ad reflex now. A window that pops up I just close ASAP without a thought.
> -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Ian Clarke > Sent: 20 December 2002 17:15 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Re: SplitFile UI Redux (Was: Re: [freenet-dev] > SplitFileRequestServlet > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:26:13PM +0000, Cruise wrote: > > Because of course your average user will tell the difference between > > javascript on a Freesite (bad) that appears when they click a link, > > from javascript on a download page (good) that appears when they > > click a link. > > Generally speaking, if someone has found a hole in the FProxy filter, > and they plan to compromize someone's security through Javascript, they > aren't going to advertise that fact by making a window pop up! > > What exactly is the user supposed to think on seeing a window appear > that is so completely terrible? The worst they can think - "hey, a > window can only appear with Javascript and javascript in a freesite is > bad, I had better email support at freenetproject.org" is: > a) Unlikely > b) Harmless > > > It's not that javascript is bad. It's not that your method is bad. > > Far from it. It's just that a lot of people will have trouble telling > > the difference between stuff that is and stuff that isn't. Rather > > than risk them accepting everything, surely it would be better to > > accept nothing, and loose a tiny bit of visual nicety? > > That doesn't make sense. > > If someone is maliciously using Javascript in a freesite the user is > unlikely to see any physical manifestation of it anyway, so what exactly > is being lost here? > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
