On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:31:04AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> > >> > I'm not happy when web sites *demand* that you run their untrusted and >> > untrustworthy code in your computer before you can see the content. >> >> How do you currently see the HTML content before it is interpreted by >> your computer? > > This is increasingly getting less and less on-topic, but to give a brief > answer, HTML is a markup language, not a programming language. (I'm > aware that technically HTML5 + CSS is Turing complete, but it's > completely impractical as a programming language.) Web devs use > Javascript because it allows them to run more or less arbitrary code, > which is either impossible or impossibly difficult from HTML alone. > > While it is possible that buggy or malicious HTML alone might crash my > browser, it is far easier and more likely to do so from Javascript.
So, you do want to see the HTML content before it is interpreted by your computer? :-) Look, your JS vs HTML argument is cloudy at best. :-) -Jim P. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
