[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“Just when you thought the browser wars were long-dead,
they’ve roared back to life in a totally new incarnation. At stake
this time is nothing less than the future of the way many of us
work, now that the Web is an “application” and not just a place to
read static pages.“The new wave of browsers — Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 9,
Google Chrome (in just about all its incarnations) — all compete
with each other fiercely to be the best possible delivery mechanism
for the web as an app platform, in four basic areas:“Security
“A more secure browser isn’t just a good idea. With each passing
month, the number of ways browsers can be exploited rises, and the
amount of damage that can be done with trivial exploits rises as
well. A recent WhiteHat Security webinar, Breaking Browsers:
Hacking Auto-Complete, demonstrated how a site could steal
passwords out of FireFox’s Password Manager with nothing but simple
JavaScript. It’s all the more troubling to hear about, especially
as the browser becomes more a platform unto itself and less of a
“mere” application.”