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[_] Direct scripting with CSS alone

Richard Davey rich at corephp.co.uk
Wed Sep 5 13:16:08 BST 2007

Hi Alastair,

Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 1:09:47 PM, you wrote:

> 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.

Considering this came up in a security blog I'm sure you can
appreciate how this can be used by those who couldn't care less about
CSS being for presentation, and instead want to harvest data from you
without your knowledge, even if you've got JS disabled.

The ramifications of where this is heading go well beyond what we've
seen so far imho.

Cheers,

Rich
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