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Re: [Cryptography] defaults, black boxes, APIs,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Jan 6 00:44:02 2014
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:29:17 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 1/5/2014 4:55 PM, Albert Lunde wrote:
> On 1/5/2014 4:59 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> They looked to the promised land of HTML5 as a way to do Flash-like
>> stuff without a plug-in and without Flash. But just what reason does
>> anyone have to think that HTML5 implementations will be any better than
>> Flash?
>
> HTML5 plus CSS is said to be Turing Complete
>
> An example of the effect of creeping featurism... :-(
>
Yes, but just an unfortunate combination of a bunch of other unfortunate
dangerous technologies.
It really *is* a dessert topping as well as a tasty floor wax. :-)
- ferg
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