need help on my javascript plasmoid

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 23 July 2009, Patrick Aljord wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. I'm trying to fetch an xml file from a website
> that has an xml api and display the results in my plasmoid. 

will you be parsing the xml before displaying it in some custom manner? (just 
wondering what all would be needed to be added to make this easy to 
accomplish)

> Also, I
> understand the security issues so I'm curious if the fact that it's
> possible in ruby and python could also give security issues?

yes. c/c++ is inherently un-securable due to the ability to fiddle with memory 
at a rather low level. ruby and python are better in that regard, but 
otherwise (given today's runtime envs for each) are capable of far too many 
other things with very few ways of actually sandboxing them appropriately to 
be considered for a secure scripting system. 

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