Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Gordon Burditt]

>>> HTML is designed to degrade gracefully (never mind that most web
>>> authors and many browser developers don't seem to comprehend this),
>>> so you don't really need a "subset" html to get the safety features
>>> you want. All you need to do is disable the appropriate features in
>>> the HTML renderer in your news and mail readers. JavaScript, Java,
>>> and any form of object embedding. Oh yeah, and frames.
>> 
>> And links.  And cookies.  And any kind of external site or local
>> file access.  And browser history.
>
>What is the risk with browser history?

spyware and viruses (which can come from places other than email)
sending it somewhere.  Actually, there's not much point in keeping
a browser history if all it can contain is mail in YOUR mailbox
that may or may not have been already deleted.

						Gordon L. Burditt