Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
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Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
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Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#2Um, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there will be at least one major browser bug leading to a remote compromise from this feature.
Maybe I'm just paranoid...
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#3Um, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there will be at least one major browser bug leading to a remote compromise from this feature. Maybe I'm just paranoid...
Perhaps, if the points to a menu.xml you don't control? I'm not sure what you could do with this that couldn't also be done with ...
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#4I have to agree with this article in that there is FAR too much text being added to the webpage for this functionality. Separating it out into a separate file is the way to go. You know, like CSS already does.
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#5Um, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there will be at least one major browser bug leading to a remote compromise from this feature. Maybe I'm just paranoid...
Perhaps, if the points to a menu.xml you don't control? I'm not sure what you could do with this that couldn't also be done with ...
Sorry, I wasn't more clear. I meant the browser feature, not the specific implementation.
I think the idea in the article was fantastic, and would be much cleaner for developers.
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#6I have to agree with this article in that there is FAR too much text being added to the webpage for this functionality. Separating it out into a separate file is the way to go. You know, like CSS already does.
I wonder what the trade off is for 1KB of text or an extra HTTP request.
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#7Um, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there will be at least one major browser bug leading to a remote compromise from this feature. Maybe I'm just paranoid...
Perhaps, if the points to a menu.xml you don't control? I'm not sure what you could do with this that couldn't also be done with ...
The pinned menu feature allows you to put images and text on a native system menu. It is conceivable that a malicious person could use this to crash the browser, or have unauthorized code run.
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#8I have to agree with this article in that there is FAR too much text being added to the webpage for this functionality. Separating it out into a separate file is the way to go. You know, like CSS already does.
I wonder what the trade off is for 1KB of text or an extra HTTP request.
Well...that's a good question from a performance standpoint, but it's more than that. Readability is important too.
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder what the trade off is for 1KB of text or an extra HTTP request.
Well...that's a good question from a performance standpoint, but it's more than that. Readability is important too.
I up voted both these comments because it just goes to show that different people care about different things. It is not a matter of better, just a matter of preference.
Re: Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
#10I have to agree with this article in that there is FAR too much text being added to the webpage for this functionality. Separating it out into a separate file is the way to go. You know, like CSS already does.
I wonder what the trade off is for 1KB of text or an extra HTTP request.
Wouldn't the trade-off be between an extra 1KB on every page vs. a single extra HTTP request per user?