Comments on: desktop != web based http://coder.cl/2008/08/desktop-web-based/ web developer & system programmer Wed, 16 May 2012 03:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Leo Soto http://coder.cl/2008/08/desktop-web-based/#comment-73 Leo Soto Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:51:20 +0000 http://coder.cl/?p=42#comment-73 Aaargh, Worpress also ate my links. JNA: https://jna.dev.java.net/ ctypes: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html Explanation about Rails sanitizing things on the wrong level of the stack: http://blog.leosoto.com/2007/12/security-by-stupidity-i-rails-and.html Aaargh, Worpress also ate my links.

JNA: https://jna.dev.java.net/

ctypes: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html

Explanation about Rails sanitizing things on the wrong level of the stack: http://blog.leosoto.com/2007/12/security-by-stupidity-i-rails-and.html

]]> By: Leo Soto http://coder.cl/2008/08/desktop-web-based/#comment-72 Leo Soto Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:49:39 +0000 http://coder.cl/?p=42#comment-72 Interesting to see PHP/Worpress/magic_quotes stupidity in action on my post above :) Which remembers me that Rails people have also managed to <a>sanitize things on the wrong level of the stack</a>. Sorry for the OT, but Wordpress gave me a good opportunity to rant a bit which I couldn't let pass :) Interesting to see PHP/Worpress/magic_quotes stupidity in action on my post above :) Which remembers me that Rails people have also managed to sanitize things on the wrong level of the stack.

Sorry for the OT, but WordPress gave me a good opportunity to rant a bit which I couldn’t let pass :)

]]> By: Leo Soto http://coder.cl/2008/08/desktop-web-based/#comment-71 Leo Soto Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:45:17 +0000 http://coder.cl/?p=42#comment-71 Interesting points. It's kinda fun (and sad at the same time) to see how webapps are sometimes required to behave exactly like desktop apps, including having their privileges. Actually, I like to have more interesting and powerful web application, but I'm really really scared about giving webapps full control over my machine. I agree that the non-sandboxed requirement should disqualify the "web application" approach. Now, a few comments: I think that IE7 doesn't use an ActiveX for XMLHTTPRequest. And, OTOH, IE6 was the browser that first implemented the "AJAX" feature set, so I wouldn't blame them for that. (And there is a *lot* of other things to blame them for, anyway). Re Java/JNI, I haven't done anything with JNI, but looks like <a>JNA</a> is much less clunky for interacting with C APIs. Looks quite cool if you are still on that business (and as a side note, I think it is inspired by python's <a>ctypes</a>) Interesting points. It’s kinda fun (and sad at the same time) to see how webapps are sometimes required to behave exactly like desktop apps, including having their privileges. Actually, I like to have more interesting and powerful web application, but I’m really really scared about giving webapps full control over my machine. I agree that the non-sandboxed requirement should disqualify the “web application” approach.

Now, a few comments: I think that IE7 doesn’t use an ActiveX for XMLHTTPRequest. And, OTOH, IE6 was the browser that first implemented the “AJAX” feature set, so I wouldn’t blame them for that. (And there is a *lot* of other things to blame them for, anyway). Re Java/JNI, I haven’t done anything with JNI, but looks like JNA is much less clunky for interacting with C APIs. Looks quite cool if you are still on that business (and as a side note, I think it is inspired by python’s ctypes)

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