radish Wrote: > Or just switch off the click (Control Panel/Sounds). > > As for the whole anti-Firefox rant, everyone's entitled to their own > opinion, but that's a pretty unique one in my experience. As someone > with a little knowledge in the area (up until recently I was a senior > developer of the largest financial services website you've never seen) > I can safely say everyone I've worked with is looking forward to the > day when browsers actually adhere to standards and we stop having to > target individual apps and work around their bugs. None of them are > perfect yet, but IE has by far the furthest to go. >
No disagreement there... but as long as these things are written by individuals with different agendas, we'll never see a day where everything works correctly all at once. > That would be a disaster. You need to read up on biodiversity and how it > relates to internet security. You're worried about a single hack taking down everything (coming from the banking industry, I respect that). But what's worse? A single point of failure that can be controlled by a single patch across all users (that server would get hammered! :)) or users floating out there with different crap in differing states of disarray, etc. Sure the 1%ers out there will want something special/different, but for 95% of the internet community, there will be a sigh of relief when everything is standardized, security and patches becomes centralized, and they can quit worrying about their personal information being stolen via a trojan installed through a security hole (why were they visiting the warez site in the first place is another conversation). A solution like this would have to be open source, no other way around it... I'm sure that the people wrapping it would open up security holes anyway... so maybe the argument's futile... :/ -- goofygrin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ goofygrin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4100 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21322 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
