Re: [xsl] HTML5 semantics and XSLT

Subject: Re: [xsl] HTML5 semantics and XSLT
From: "Norm Tovey-Walsh ndw@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:51:19 -0000
> Amazingly, it appears to be true that opened in a current web browser,
> a document like the following will proceed to execute the script it
> contains.

HTML email was always evil.

The webmail clients that Ibve used recently have all been removing
images and scripts before presenting the messages, I think.

Opening random web pages is risky. And if youbve disabled some of the
security features in your browser because you want, for example, to run
scripts off of file: URIs, youbre just making things even riskier for
yourself.

> Otherwise, at least as reported in the post cited above, an OpenOffice
> document, when previewed in certain execution contexts, can act much
> like a Word document with embedded malware.

Seems likely.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.--Emerson

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