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At least with external entities you could deny the parser an internet connection and force it to only load external documents from a cache you prepopulated and
by hinkley 11mo ago
At least with external entities you could deny the parser an internet connection and force it to only load external documents from a cache you prepopulated and vetted. Turing completeness is a bullshit idea in document formats.
- aidenn0 11mo agoWith SVGs you can serve them from a different domain. IIUC the issue from TFA was that the SVGs were served from the primary domain; had they been on a different domain, they would have not been allowed to do as much.
- actionfromafar 11mo agoPostscript is pretty neat IMHO and it’s Turing complete. I really appreciated my raytraced page finally coming out of that poor HP laser after an hour or so.
- aidenn0 11mo agoI once sent a Sierpinski's Triangle postscript program to a shared printer. It took 90 minutes, and pissed off everybody else trying to print.
- hinkley 11mo agoOne of the very first SVG documents I encountered was a port of the PS Tiger to SVG. It loaded a lot faster than the PostScript Tiger.
- bigfatkitten 11mo agoSounds almost like a fun crypto mining opportunity.
- anthk 11mo agoPostScript can emulate the ZMachine (Zork text adventures and all of infocom) with "zmachine.ps". Look it up at DDG/GG.
- zahlman 11mo agoHow does it do I/O?
- actionfromafar 11mo agoA monad. It’s just a class of abstract Endor Moon or something. Probably you have to send all commands up to the current state to it. :)
- gnerd00 11mo agocalling Leonard Rosenthol ...