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I don't see how making browsers less forgiving would reduce drive-by ransomware. I don't think most browser vulnerabilities are related to the web being forgivi

I don't see how making browsers less forgiving would reduce drive-by ransomware. I don't think most browser vulnerabilities are related to the web being forgiving.

mrob 2y ago
Have you seen how big the HTML spec is? https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ A huge part of this complexity exists because of the forgiving attitude. With a strict attitude the spec could be much simpler, and that means web browsers could be much smaller. The most secure code is no code.
alexvitkov 2y ago
Vulnerabilities are related to the web being complex, and just this one quirk involves a parsing algorithm with 6 transformations of a user-provided value.