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[_] Direct scripting with CSS alone

Alastair Moore alastair at kozmo.co.uk
Wed Sep 5 13:09:47 BST 2007 

On 5 Sep 2007, at 12:52, Richard Davey wrote:

> Hi _,
>
> One of my favourite security bloggers posted this little demo up.
>
> It demonstrates how advanced CSS is getting, including full send and
> retrieval of data (with *NO* JavaScript at all), Browser History
> recognition and link tracking.
>
> http://www.businessinfo.co.uk/labs/css_scripting_kit/ 
> css_scripting_kit.php
>
> This is for FF only at the moment.
>
> It doesn't look like much on the surface, but View Source and check
> out the Style block. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Clever stuff, but surely CSS is there for the presentation as opposed  
to the logic of a web site/web application? Let's keep this kind of  
thing out of CSS and let it do what it does (mostly) pretty well.



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