JavaScript is the "VM" to target for D

[retard]

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:29:55 -0400, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 01:53:10PM -0600, Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> Congratulations, you just invented ActiveX.  I hope you like your
>> platform lockdown and your security vulnerabilities.
> 
> ActiveX controls don't run as a limited user account. That's the key
> here: the entire browser should be running as a restricted user, and it
> creates processes even more restricted than itself.

How does this prevent platform lockdown?

> (When Google did this in Chrome, it was hailed as brilliant and
> innovative.
>  I saw it as them finally doing what they should have been doing from
>  the beginning.)

I haven't really seen the native client system used in any crucial real 
world site.

> 
>> 99% of web pages will offer just the win32 version.
> 
> Meh, works for 91% of users.

So, what technologies should the minority use then? Nothing? You're 
suggesting a cross-platform solution but you don't even believe yourself 
that it really should be cross-platform. That's pretty dishonest.