[Coco] New Product From BoysonTech

Sean badfrog at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 11:32:14 EDT 2018


If one has actively been blocking Javascript, you should have noticed by
now that at least 50% of web pages are now completely useless without it.
Can't even order a pizza from Domino's with it disabled.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

>  Hi Gene,
> I was able to duplicate the visualization issue that you are having by
> disabling javascript in Firefox.
>
> I am using Windows 7 with Firefox 52.9 32 bit.
>
> Salvador
>
>
>
>     On Sunday, July 22, 2018, 10:09:58 PM CDT, Gene Heskett <
> gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>
>  On Sunday 22 July 2018 22:47:16 RETRO Innovations wrote:
>
> > On 7/22/2018 8:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I still see nothing mid-page on the marketplace link, as of 5
> > > minutes ago, with linux firefox version 52.8, 32 bit version.  And I
> > > am not to my knowledge blocking anything except some javascript
> > > since its an open back door into the system. Regardless of the
> > > system.
> >
> > Blocking Javascript is a substantial change to the HTML/CSS rendering
> > pipeline.
> >
> > It's your choice to disable JS, but I think you should note that when
> > outlining web site issues.  The initial note, without that context,
> > implies there no one can view the content as desired.  Poor Richard
> > could have spent hours trying to track down a rendering issue that is
> > just not there.
> >
> > Jim
>
> This is true, and I often forget there is not any javascript available to
> play with. While the point I am trying to make is that there are other
> methods available to the page editor, that both work, usually faster and
> aren't the hackers favorite back door into your machine. And of course
> it doesn't hurt that my router runs dd-wrt. Nothing comes in that I or
> the machine didn't ask for except incoming to my own web page in the
> sig. With apache2 running nothing it doesn't need, in a sandbox that
> hasn't been breached in 5 years, I feel relatively safe.
>
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