I agree 100%. Yet, as this topic is about the different faces of client
code, having the terms well-defined will help in the future. We are both
agreed that there are sandboxed and non-sandboxed parts, and each has it's
purpose. I just wanted to establish common terms, with some generic
examples
User perceptions are completely orthogonal to the engineering issues here
though, Ricky. We could certainly make all use cases look entirely uniform
from a user perspective if we wanted to, but we don't advocate that because
the security and responsibility issues are so different in the two (and o
Carlo, both you and Morgain make very good arguments as to why various parts
I separated are, technically, the same. However, while I understand that
Dynamic Scripts (loaded from serverside) and UserScripts are completely the
same thing (just like in a browser, the JavaScript loaded from
the serve
On 2010-03-07, at 08:20, Carlo Wood wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:19:43PM -0800, Ricky wrote:
>> Client Plugins
> Ok, although I'd prefer if-- for example-- media plugins run in a
> sandbox;
> think about the recent mention of the quicktime exploit.
The kind of sandbox you can usefully en
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:19:43PM -0800, Ricky wrote:
> Client Plugins
Ok, although I'd prefer if-- for example-- media plugins run in a sandbox;
think about the recent mention of the quicktime exploit.
> Client Extensions - Interpreted code packages placed in a special folder in
> the
> client
Ricky, there's nothing major wrong with your classification, but you make
two breakdowns which actually have no clear demarcation between them:
- Your "Client Plugins" and your "Client Extensions" are actually one and
the same thing, merely representing two different use cases of the same
A while back, before the 2.0 announce interrupted our conversation, I had
made a post about what I saw as three different forms of client-side
scripting/plugins/whathaveyou. I've since been convinced that I missed
something.
So here goes again, with a (hopefully) improved set of definitions:
Cli
