Javascript JIT in web browsers

[Michael Cronenworth]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Sorry, but I don't think exposing our users to remote arbitrary code
> execution (!) vulnerabilities just to make web apps a bit faster is a
> reasonable tradeoff.

Kevin, if you took off your FSF blindfold you would see that it's better 
for web sites to use JavaScript. If they complied to /your/ wishes we 
would have a thousand proprietary protocols, probably all /closed/ 
source, to communicate in between /closed/ source applications. Most 
likely Microsoft or another Closed Source vendor would create a protocol 
standard that applications would adopt, and you yourself would probably 
have to write to! In this situation we have to choose the lesser of two 
evils instead of no evils.