Re:It’s time to kill the web app
by TeMPOraL on Saturday September 23, 2017 @05:36PM
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> This isn't an issue with HTML, it's an issue with human error.
All security issues are due to human error. Those are solved by building better tools.
> If this was the case, it would be near-impossible to write HTML by hand.
If, besides the text form, there would be a well-defined length-prefixed binary representation, we could simply compile HTML to binary-HTML, which would immediately made the web not only safer, but also much more efficient (it's scary if you think just how much parsing and reparsing goes on when displaying a web page).
All security issues are due to human error. Those are solved by building better tools.
> If this was the case, it would be near-impossible to write HTML by hand.
If, besides the text form, there would be a well-defined length-prefixed binary representation, we could simply compile HTML to binary-HTML, which would immediately made the web not only safer, but also much more efficient (it's scary if you think just how much parsing and reparsing goes on when displaying a web page).