Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 08/22/07 08:15

rf wrote:

> You miss the point entirely.
>
> Last time I visited a web site that caused my lights to flash it was written
> by someone who had decided to realize a "chat" page by firing off a 5
> kilobyte AJAX transaction every 500 milliseconds. That site would have used
> my entire days quota of bandwidth in 10 minutes of simply staring at the
> screen, doing nothing.
>
> That is what I mean by broken. Not paranoia. Dollars.

Yeah, I get the point entirely.
Developers have that problem, but real users don't.

If your job includes frequenting half-built sites by amateurs or
net-abusers, you're *certainly* going to have to disable many critical
browser features and implement other paranoia measures.

You'll disable cookies, and monitor your modem lights and have
anti-spamware and anti-spyware enabled with a software firewall and a
hardware firewall and maybe you might even proxy through an anonymizing
relay.

Real users just use the damn thing, and stay away from predatory web sites.


>> If scripting activity and flashing lights scare you - the web will give
>> you seizures.
>
> You have no idea, do you?

I got lots of ideas.

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