[cap-talk] "Immutable Law" #1 is alive and well at Microsoft

[Mark Miller]

On 10/4/07, Ka-Ping Yee <cap-talk at zesty.ca> wrote:
> [...] "Immutable Law #1" [...]
> Is this a meme worth continuing to fight?  And if so, how should we
> fight it?

As stated, no one actually believes this "law". Normal users regularly
browse untrusted sites with Javascript turned on. Modulo browser bugs
and phishing, they mostly remain safe. (And I doubt anyone thinks
there's a law preventing us from fixing these browser bugs or doing
something about phishing.) Therefore, any attempt to argue against
this "law" would be perceived, correctly IMO, as attacking a straw
man.

Those who quote this law in support of some argument obviously intend
some meaning that excludes sandboxed Javascript. But the law as stated
doesn't support any such exclusion.

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Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

    Cheers,
    --MarkM