Re: HTML5 as JS

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Author: Andrew McRobb
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: HTML5 as JS
No, HTML5 is a markup at the end of the day. Comparing JS and HTML, is like
comparing apples to oranges. All HTML5 does is include new tags to use when
building a web app for you or search engines to use:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_intro.asp. It doesn't at all handle
any logic like JS would, if that's what you are asking.

Same can almost go for CSS. It's a description language, it doesn't handle
any logic (except for select queries). However, CSS is starting to
implement variables, but you can only use those for *attributes*. Not write
a fully functional app with CSS alone.

Andrew McRobb
Full-time Software Developer
Part-time Freelancer
mcrobb.info

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:21 AM, der.hans <> wrote:

> moin moin,
>
> I haven't paid much attention to HTML and CSS standards for many years.
>
> As I understand it, HTML5 is script-like to lesson use of javascript.
>
> Does that mean plain HTML ( no javascript ) is sufficient to exploit
> browsers in light of #meltdown and #spectre ?
>
> https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-
> landing-new-class-timing-attack/
>
> https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/ssca
>
> What about CSS?
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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