Posted by Marco on 12/07/06 19:23

"Ed Seedhouse" <eseedhouse@shaw.ca> schreef in bericht
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> 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.
>

Thanks everyone for the replies.
However, everyone seems to worry about security risks.
But i wrote:

>>So it's only for use on a local computer

So i wasn't asking about security since it's not an issue, i was asking
about a way to do it.
But thanks anyway.

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