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Re: URI handling woes in Acrobat Reader, Netscape, Miranda, Skype


From: terry white <twhite () aniota com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 00:57:02 -0700 (PDT)

... ciao:

: on "10-6-2007" "Kurt Dillard" writ:
: In my opinion, every application should handle incoming data as bad data.

   finally.

: Its poor programming to assume that incoming data is properly formatted and
: safe to process as is, even if the data is supposed to come from a process
: you own.

    actually, i think it's "shoddy" programming.


: Why so extreme?

    or perhaps more properly, why would considerate programming be
considered extreme ...


-- 
... i'm a man, but i can change,
    if i have to , i guess ...

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