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Is this a big deal? is it also not a problem with anything that renders clickable links? Browsers, email clients, whatever. Is this not a problem with anything
by graemep 9mo ago
Is this a big deal? is it also not a problem with anything that renders clickable links? Browsers, email clients, whatever.
Is this not a problem with anything that offers a preview of markdown (or HTML, or anything with embedded links)?
- laserbeam 9mo agoThe problem is notepad itself would download and execute bad stuff if you click the evil link. If you would paste that same link in a browser you'd be ok. And the problem is a notepad app is expected to be dead simple, have few features, and be hard to get wrong while implementing.
- graemep 9mo agoSo Notepad will download and execute itself rather than launch an appropriate application to handle the URL? That was not clear to me.
- BLKNSLVR 9mo agoJust imagine all the problems that wouldn't have occurred of email remained text only!
- abustamam 9mo agoIt could be. But why is notepad doing anything other than rendering text? I don't expect it to make links clickable, or render markdown.
- NetMageSCW 9mo agoThat was old Notepad. This is new Notepad.
- abustamam 9mo agoI think my comment still stands though. Why is "new" Notepad getting new features? It was perfect as it was.
- MikePlacid 9mo agoProgrammers and their managers need food. And other nice things.
- abustamam 9mo agoDon't programmers now just get fed tokens? /s