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echo: rberrypi
to: JOHN H. GUILLORY
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2018-04-15 09:29:00
subject: Re: Chromium and GL deskt

On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:06:35 +1200
nospam.John.H..Guillory@f60.n396.z1.binkp.net (John H. Guillory) wrote:

>  NN> HTML5, CSS4 and ES6 have moved browsers to a point where they can
>  NN> easily serve as user interface to virtually everything. I don't want
>  NN> to go back to downloading horribly broken Java or Flash applets.
>
>      And what's wrong with using Flash Applets?

 Downloading unsigned, unverifiable binaries from unknown and
untrusted sources, running them automatically in a closed source, single
vendor, largely undocumented execution environment - what could possibly be
wrong with that.

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