On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see why the web platform is special here and we should trust that > authors can do the right thing.
I'm fairly sure people have already pointed this out to you. But the reason the web platform is different is that because we allow arbitrary application logic to run on the user's device without any user opt-in. I.e. the web is designed such that it is safe for a user to go to any website without having to consider the risks of doing so. This is why we for example don't allow websites to have arbitrary read/write access to the user's filesystem. Something that all the other platforms that you have pointed out do. Those platforms instead rely on that users make a security decision before allowing any code to run. This has both advantages (easier to design APIs for those platforms) and disadvantages (malware is pretty prevalent on for example Windows). / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
