[JSMentors] Re: JavaScript must die

2011-01-30 Thread RobG
On Jan 31, 9:46 am, cancel bubble wrote: > "My thesis is that the security situation with JavaScript is so poor that > the only solution is to kill it. End users have very little in the way of > protection against malicious JavaScript, major web sites suffer from XSS and > CSRF flaws, the langua

Re: [JSMentors] JavaScript must die

2011-01-30 Thread fernando trasvina
life kills everyone, let's destroy it. lol a lil too exaggerated right :P pretty nice presentation, but even though javascript has some security problems when used on the browser its mainly a developers problem, same thing with other languages, just open every remote file and eval it on ruby,

Re: [JSMentors] JavaScript must die

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Heilmann
On 31/01/2011 00:10, Poetro wrote: This is not the problem of the language, but the interpretation and adding scripts to the web page, in case of browser usage. If there could be only one JavaScript tag on the page, and that could load the external scripts, it would be more secure IMHO. Then none

Re: [JSMentors] JavaScript must die

2011-01-30 Thread Asen Bozhilov
cancel bubble: > Thoughts? If you have a hummer and hit in your head. Does it mean this a problem of hummer? -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://w

Re: [JSMentors] JavaScript must die

2011-01-30 Thread Poetro
This is not the problem of the language, but the interpretation and adding scripts to the web page, in case of browser usage. If there could be only one JavaScript tag on the page, and that could load the external scripts, it would be more secure IMHO. Then none could inject script tags to the page

Re: [JSMentors] JavaScript must die

2011-01-30 Thread Diego Perini
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:46 AM, cancel bubble wrote: > "My thesis is that the security situation with JavaScript is so poor that > the only solution is to kill it. End users have very little in the way of > protection against malicious JavaScript, major web sites suffer from XSS and > CSRF flaws

Re: [JSMentors] Scheme interpreter on CoffeeScript

2011-01-30 Thread Dmitry A. Soshnikov
Oh, yeah, MIT style license is the case. Regarding Github -- yes, of course, I wanted to upload it there when the version will have less bugs. But actually I guess it's the good time to do it already now, since today e.g. I've made some/many changes, and unfortunately edit the sources without