An easier way of using polyfills

Re:An easier way of using polyfills by coldtea on Saturday November 08, 2014 @05:15AM (#8576488)

>It might actually be worse, because if you tell people you don't run macros in untrusted office documents, most people will applaud you for being wise -- while if you say you use noscript people will dismiss you as a paranoid Luddite.

Maybe because macros are a BS add-on functionality that does nothing for 99.9% of Office users, whereas JS is a key component of the modern, dynamic, web.

>Runable code created by random people, from random sources, in one address space with access to all your user data -- what could go wrong?

Yeah, it's not like we have a security model for JS, sandboxed environments, and even each tab running as a separate process.

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Re:An easier way of using polyfills by teacup50 on Saturday November 08, 2014 @05:07PM (#8578296)

> Yeah, it's not like we have a security model for JS, sandboxed environments, and even each tab running as a separate process.

Sandboxed environments containing user data that web developers voluntarily compromise by then inserting 3rd-party controlled code.

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Re:An easier way of using polyfills by e12e on Sunday November 09, 2014 @01:26AM (#8579278)

Precisely. I'm glad my comment didn't pass over everyone's head.

A little disappointed that it's teacup50 that pours cold water on coldtea, and not the other way around. If only I had a biscuit-themed nick, to go with this little sub-thread.

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