Soldier Bob
07-12-2002, 05:08 PM
Taken from the JavaScript Bible:
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Understanding what JavaScript is not capable of doing is vital. Scripters waste many hours looking for way of carrying out tasks for which JavaScript was not designed. Most of the limitations are designed to protect visitors from invasions of privacy or unauthorized access to their desktop computers. Therefore, unless a visitor uses a modern browser and explicitly gives you permission to access protected parts ofhis or her computer, JavaScript cannot surreptitiously perform any of the following actions:
Setting or retrieving the browser's preferences settings, main window appearance features, action buttons, and printing.
Launching an application on the client computer.
Reading or writing files or directories on the client or server computer.
Capturing live data streams from the server for retransmission
Sending secret e-mails from Web site visitors to you.
"
-S. Bob
"Sometimes its nice to know what you are working with"
"
Understanding what JavaScript is not capable of doing is vital. Scripters waste many hours looking for way of carrying out tasks for which JavaScript was not designed. Most of the limitations are designed to protect visitors from invasions of privacy or unauthorized access to their desktop computers. Therefore, unless a visitor uses a modern browser and explicitly gives you permission to access protected parts ofhis or her computer, JavaScript cannot surreptitiously perform any of the following actions:
Setting or retrieving the browser's preferences settings, main window appearance features, action buttons, and printing.
Launching an application on the client computer.
Reading or writing files or directories on the client or server computer.
Capturing live data streams from the server for retransmission
Sending secret e-mails from Web site visitors to you.
"
-S. Bob
"Sometimes its nice to know what you are working with"