Jargons of Info Tech industry

Roedy Green my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid
Sat Oct 8 18:25:23 EDT 2005


On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:57:13 -0000, gordonb.u09l7 at burditt.org (Gordon
Burditt) wrote or quoted :

>
>HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems:  "web bugs" in email,
>links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up
>on the screen, Javascript viruses, denial-of-service attacks
>(pages that open two windows when you close one), etc.

Just how long do you want to stall evolution?  Do you imagine people
200 years from now will be still be using pure ASCII text unable to
find a solution to JavaScript viruses (turn off JS), pop-up( disable
popups) etc.?
-- 
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