Jargons of Info Tech industry

CBFalconer cbfalconer at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 25 23:43:17 EDT 2005


Gordon Burditt wrote:
> 
>> HTML is designed to degrade gracefully (never mind that most web
>> authors and many browser developers don't seem to comprehend this),
>> so you don't really need a "subset" html to get the safety features
>> you want. All you need to do is disable the appropriate features in
>> the HTML renderer in your news and mail readers. JavaScript, Java,
>> and any form of object embedding. Oh yeah, and frames.
> 
> And links.  And cookies.  And any kind of external site or local
> file access.  And browser history.

What is the risk with browser history?

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