Posted by Marco on 12/08/06 06:19

"Ed Seedhouse" <eseedhouse@shaw.ca> schreef in bericht
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> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:23:18 +0100, "Marco" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>
>>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
>
> Well then, write your own web browser that can do that.
>
>>So i wasn't asking about security since it's not an issue, i was asking
>>about a way to do it.
>
> You won't find any commercial browser that can, for the reasons I gave
> previously. For some reason people who write web browsers write them
> for browsing the web and strangely they hope they will be used all over
> the place.
>
> Anything that a local web page can do a remote page can do, period.
> That's the way the web is designed.
>
> You want to run a program? That's what your operating system is there
> for!

My final reaction:
I said i want to START it from a webbrowser, not RUN. Of course the OS does
that.
You really don't get it, do you.?
Goodbye,
Marco

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