Re: Publishing HTML

[Trevor Curtis <trevor curtis home com>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:37:24AM +0100, Colm Smyth wrote:
> - (paranoia on) a multi-user writeable cache for html files creates more issues
>   than one for man-pages; HTML isn't as harmless a document format as you might
>   like because it is a host for executable content (javascript, plug-ins, java,
>   ...; also remote execution (form input methods like cgi, servlets, ...) 
>   it would be possible to edit a html page to bind different actions to buttons
>   or hyperlinks
> 

Hey. I'm new to all this, and so might be missing something, but why
would we worry about plugins? Going from xml/sgml -> html, we
typically don't use javascript or plugins of that sort.  Or do you
mean this in just a general sense?

cheers,
-- 
Trevor Curtis
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~tcurtis
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