If I recall correctly there were suggestions to serve the help pages through a local web server - was that tried and rejected?
Thanks, yc On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > Four minutes ago, Jordan Schatz wrote: > > This is the only way I am aware of to get IE to automatically run JS > > in local files: > > > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749149(WS.10).aspx > > (keep reading, it starts there but the important bit is a couple > > paragraphs down) > > There are two things there, which both don't work: one is to disable > the whole thing, which means that you give up all proection making it > a non-solution. The other (the "Mark of the Web" ridiculousness) > seemed like a promising direction, but I remember that there were some > bad issues with that too. > > [IMO, they could have made things much better by making all local > pages behave as if they had that mark thing (which makes it impossible > to lead to security issues like reading local files), and only pages > that need more access would lead to asking the user for permission. > It seems like that would have been easier, since it makes the whole > local machine zone lockdown unnecessary...] >
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