fish <fish at bovine.artificial-stupidity.net> writes:

> it is... look, it's okay for us to sit here preaching about this, but you
> know, this stuff was done for a reason... users *like* this feature of IE
> on the mainstream web, that being for what it was designed,

Sure it has it's uses. Like word macros ...

The problem are products where (a) features trump security, and (b)
even a security-concious user has *no* chance to turn off some
dangerous features.

> since most users don't have control over their server and can't set
> mime-types.

It's hard to imagine a server where users allowed to edit content are
not allowed to influence mime types. Please elaborate.

-- 
Robbe
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