From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2602:4b:a4a9:e100::63a:26e7]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7ADBF79C69 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2016 07:21:15 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brannon To: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com References: <20161029110356.eklhad@comcast.net> <20161126224954.eklhad@comcast.net> <87y3z2x90a.fsf@the-brannons.com> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 07:21:08 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Kevin Carhart's message of "Mon, 26 Dec 2016 22:53:11 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <87tw9pxusb.fsf@the-brannons.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] $ object in javascript X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:21:15 -0000 Kevin Carhart writes: > Hi Chris, > >> I'll be honest, I am starting to find this project very >> overwhelming on an intellectual level. >> I don't know how long I can keep up. > > My alarm bells go off. You have a veto. If you think it is like > this, the drawbacks may outweigh the benefits or something is awry and > it shouldn't be done this way. Oh not at all. I'm not saying "don't move forward" or anything like that! I mean I have a problem wrapping my head around all of the complexity here. That's a personal problem of mine, and I'll either get over it or I won't. But by all means let's keep moving forward! > I think there is a restriction, which may be a convention rather than > something that is enforced by code, that AJAX cannot load from outside > domains, but only from the domain of the original page. Yes, and we should probably make sure we honor that. > Although, is this different than the > security implications of the web request browsed with the 'b' command > in the first place? Maybe not much, except all of this stuff is possibly taking place in the background, totally out of user control. -- Chris