Trusting Anil Dash not to f*ck up my site with evil JavaScript
Below is a snippet of an entry from Anil Dash’s blog on the possibilities of using embed, object and JavaScript for serving all kinds of content — not just movies.
The obvious question is ‘How much should you trust code from strangers?’ And can this be done in a safe(-ish), secure(-ish) way?
Possibly related: Cross-domain Ajax links and Access Control for Cross-site Requests (implemented in Firefox 3)
the title of this post would’ve been hella funny if you had lopped off “javascript”.
Oh, see, now you’re tempting me to mess with your site.
I think the most interesting thing here is the list of commenters… makes me wonder what it would look like if we had avatars for them or something.