Posted by Ed Seedhouse on 12/07/06 14:31

On 7 Dec 2006 07:25:20 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid>
wrote:

>Ed Seedhouse wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:22:36 +0100, "Marco" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I'd like to start a program from a html-page.
>>
>> Any web browser that allowed you to do that would be off the market in
>> about 60 seconds because it would be an unacceptable security risk. It
>
>It would be eternal and ubiquitous if Microsoft made it. :)

Nope. Even MS is sensitive to security needs. Everyone someone points
out a security error they send a patch to fix it pretty promptly. Of
course they often botch it, but even MS is not going to do that in a
browser on purpose. They've been losing market share recently and they
don't like that.

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