I have to chime in, here. Disabling javascript on your own computer is fine and dandy. However, coming from someone who has recently sampled cyber cafes all over the world, I can personally attest that in many cases JavaScript is enabled on the cafe machines and there is no way to disable it. Not to mention that in many cases people are simply borrowing someone else's machine -- to barge in and mess with their personal configuration is not very sociable.

These scenarios happen every day. When browser configuration is out of your control, these home nodes with borderline-malicious JS are downright rude and malicious because of the assumptions they make about your environment.

In the case of net cafes, even when they do allow you to configure your browser to your liking (you know, such as disabling password auto-complete on forms in IE (arrgh!), it is unlikely that people will completely reconfigure a browser every single time they walk into a net cafe.

For those monks who are Called to teach others the dangers of JavaScript, please remember that not everyone's circumstances are identical to your own -- to assume otherwise is shortsighted at best.

Matt

In reply to Scorched by JavaScript by mojotoad
in thread JavaScript on home nodes by Biker

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