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It's nice that Google identified this security hole, but I suspect that Google is also the main reason for its existence in the first place: if Google didn't wa
by hollerith 3y ago
It's nice that Google identified this security hole, but I suspect that Google is also the main reason for its existence in the first place: if Google didn't want to reduce by a few percent its costs for serving images, there probably would be no widespread usage of the WebP format.
(Similarly, it is nice that Google finds so many bugs in Javascript engines, but on the other hand they were one of the the main proponents of the bad idea of turning every web page into an executable program in the first place.)
ADDED. OK I was unfair in my guessing as to Google's motivation: the main motivation seems to have been to speed up page loading across the web.
- akmittal 3y agoHow is every webpage executable?
- hollerith 3y agoIn order to reliably view the web pages I visit, I must be prepared to execute Javascript or more precisely employ a browser to do it for me. The web was not always that way.
- akmittal 3y agoMy 15 years of web usage there was no time when I could turn JS off and everything would work fine.
- kccqzy 3y agoRead some history, friend. People wanted to turn web pages into executable programs even before Google existed. Have you heard of Java applets (Sun)? Have you heard of the beginnings of JavaScript (Netscape)? Have you heard of VBScript (Microsoft)? This is inevitable. Even if none of the aforementioned companies did it, some other company will.
- Bluecobra 3y agoThe network is the computer! :barf: