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Netscape 8 to Emphasize Security
wikinerd writes "Netscape is building Netscape 8 which will include several anti-phishing enhancements and will emphasize security. Netscape obtains blacklists of scam and spam sites which will be denied access to ActiveX and cookies. RSS capabilities will also be included in Netscape 8, which will be released on 17 February."
"Netscape 8 to Emphasize Security"
OK, and what were they emphasizing before? Market Share?
And if you black list all those sites, how am I supposed to look at free porn anymore?
Mark
The new Netscape lets you choose between the gecko engine or IE's engine to render any page. You can have a few tabs open rendered by gecko, and a few tabs by IE, at the same time.
The decision to use blacklists with ActiveX is an unfortunate one. In an environment as fluid as the internet scam industry, there will be vastly more new sites set up than human-controlled blacklisting can stop, especially if web servers are set up on botnets of unsuspecting home XP users. Let's just hope the default rendering engine will be Gecko.
Having said that, there are a few javascript phishing techniques that work perfectly well in Firefox with Gecko...
One good turn - gets all the covers.
What's next, Mosiac?
CKSCIII
The other sad fact is that by compensating for the sites that use ActiveX, you stop giving them any incentive to stop using it.
They win, we (including you) lose.
The whole idea is to pressure sites to clean up their code, make it standard, and stop using ActiveX. You do that by increasing the marketshare of browsers that DON'T accept bad/nonstandard code and DON'T use ActiveX.
If you allow sites to be crap, they'll happily do so. It's the whole "give them an inch..." thing.
Someone once referred to this as a big game of chicken. Netscape loses by blinking and putting in ActiveX. This removes a lot of the pressure sites have to wake up and stop making their pages IE-only.
It's very unfortunate for all of us.
That would be the Pwn3d button?