Am 08.07.2008 um 06:35 schrieb Mikus Grinbergs: > A reference was made to Gears: >> My point was exactly that it is a plugin. >> There are other plugins that are educationally useful. > > Security. I believe that 'Browse' is restricted as to how much it > is allowed to modify the operating system itself. Such restrictions > would apply to plugins as well. That concept NEEDS to be enforced.
It is. > [War story: When plugins first became available for Netscape, I > installed one. But Netscape started behaving differently from how I > had thought I had set it up. I investigated, and found out that > "under the covers" the plugin had CHANGED (without telling me) some > Netscape settings to the way *it* wanted them. Got rid of it fast.] > > My point is that a 'plugin' is typically a "binary blob" -- the > person installing it on his computer has NO IDEA as to what that > plugin might surreptitiously be doing "under the covers". And with Bitfrost the user does not *have to have an idea*. A browser plugin can *only* do what the browse activity can do. Nothing more - which is in stark contrast to what a plugin on a regular machine can do (namely, everything the user can do). - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar