From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hikaru Ichijyo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for forums? Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:05:13 -0500 Organization: UN Spacy Message-ID: <8xxmuv4fiyu.fsf@macross.sdf.jp> References: <87y3eryk80.fsf@openmail.cc> <874lhfop7f.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87in5vbzv3.fsf@openmail.cc> <8736wycp8h.fsf@openmail.cc> <9FC04800-4439-485E-A718-03566E9814E3@gmail.com> <87y3epb6xd.fsf@openmail.cc> <87r2khaxmg.fsf@openmail.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530893320 32371 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2018 16:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 16:08:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 18:08:36 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbTHg-0008J6-0H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:08:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbTJn-0001yl-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:10:47 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!bolzen.all.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad!fx03.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Cancel-Lock: sha1:PLeVbjfbOyVJ0OV/GvMsHPra9P0= Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: http://abuse.usenetxs.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:05:14 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 2569 X-Received-Body-CRC: 306102672 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223251 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117374 Archived-At: Something to consider as we discuss JavaScript capability and more usage of EWW features to implement this, is that one advantage Emacs has enjoyed up to this point as an Internet client is a much smaller attack surface for exploits to take advantage of. Not many comprimised/hostile web sites out there are just waiting for someone to come around in a browser running in a Lisp environment. But as we start to use libxml2 and JavaScript, etc., we are starting to head down that road where our browsing environment is just as ripe for the picking as anyone else's. I don't want to slow this effort down. Believe me, there are webboards I'd be using more if I didn't have to "mousercize" my way through them, trying to find out what articles are new since last time by clicking sixteen web links for each one and scrolling up and down through lots of graphics just to see if I'm done in the forum I'm in and I can go on to the next one. We just don't want to take on so much of this browser functionality that Emacs starts to have some of the same security problems that big GUI browsers tend to have. -- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. --Thomas Paine