Re:Limiting JavaScript?
by ringaroll on Sunday February 03, 2019 @12:41AM
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Personally, if it ever happens, I'm going to tell users to download the native app. Those who want to download it will do it. Those who wont, no worries. I'm not going to pander every browser's arbitrary requirements. All the hate on JS is getting is beyond stupid.
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I will not be installing your app and I will advise all friends, family, and aquaintances to do the same. Native apps are 1000x worse than the web in the risks to users. Even if I trust you I also have to trust the authors of every library your app uses not to pown my computer or use my camera or mic, scan my network, capture my screen, read the clipboard constantly, read and/or upload all my files, etc...
>Even if I trust you I also have to trust the authors of every library your app uses not to pown my computer or use my camera or mic, scan my network, capture my screen, read the clipboard constantly, read and/or upload all my files, etc...
You have to do that with all of the software you run, and the operating system you run it on, anyway.
And that, I believe, is the true reasoning behind this move. As web apps drive traffic away from stores, and thus drive away revenues from such stores, limiting JS would be a way of forcing apps back to the stores.