Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by Gorbzel on Friday February 01, 2013 @11:30PM (#5155160)

Couldn't have said it better.

People act completely stupid when it comes to their OS. HOLY SHIT THERE'S A STANDARD TEXT FIELD CLASS?!?!?! APPLE IS DOOMZ0R3D!! Be a champ and submit these kind of things to your local devs and (as the super "hacker" posters say) carry on...

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by untog on Friday February 01, 2013 @11:50PM (#5155201)

Oh, please. What is a standard text field class doing with the text inputted into it that would cause an entire app to crash? It's a ridiculous scenario.

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by jzwinck on Saturday February 02, 2013 @12:10AM (#5155246)

Would you have the standard text field run in a separate process sandbox? Or not have standard widgets shared between apps? Or just try real hard to write code without bugs?

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by Firehed on Saturday February 02, 2013 @01:55AM (#5155422)

Uh, no - this is more of a "don't execute code in a textbox" thing.

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by wilg on Saturday February 02, 2013 @04:32AM (#5155612)

Do you understand how the text box gets onto your screen?

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by sigzero on Saturday February 02, 2013 @01:55PM (#5156882)

Magick?

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Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X by alttab on Sunday February 03, 2013 @01:53PM (#5160632)

A great way around this would be for the system to ignore exceptions unless it was caught... wait nevermind

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