Re: Best Scripting Environment Ever. Best Desktop Technology Ever.

If you enable ActiveX, then you can access the file system, just like with a
desktop app.  Think of this as a desktop app.  Think of a super light WPF
desktop app.

You obviously would not want to do this on a machine that is open to the
internet.

There are still many situations where people are using ActiveX, on highly
secure systems, that will never ever see an internet connection.  This is
where it especially makes sense.

Mike

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Alan Baljeu <alanbaljeu-/[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> I thought JavaScript was limited to browsing activities.  It would be
> terribly unsecure if a script off the web could access your computer.
>
> Alan Baljeu
>
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> *From:* Kim Gräsman <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Wed, April 6, 2011 1:11:49 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Best Scripting Environment Ever. Best Desktop
> Technology Ever.
>
>
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> Synchronicity. I just used JavaScript with WSH the other day to do
> some shell + automation scripting. Then again, I think it's nice
> mostly in the sense that it's always available on Windows boxes, I
> never have to worry about prerequisites.
>
> - Kim
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 01:27, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> > IE (even as far back as 5.0) + HTML + JavaScript +
> > Scripting.FileSystemObject on Windows.
> >
> > It has been right under our noses all these years.  Just like AJAX was.
> >
> > I used to do ASP.NET <http://asp.net/>, but now I do a lot of work on
> very walled off,
> > locked down systems, and am often in need of a scripting language.
> > Usually I end up doing something "creative".  But recently I had the
> > good fortune of being truly checkmated.  I had only a very walled off
> > Windows 2003 machine to work with.  But this turned out to be great
> > because instead of loading Powershell or Visual Studio, it forced me
> > to try writing a utility using JavaScript and HTML.  It was
> > outstandingly productive.  Is there any simpler *desktop* UI
> > technology than HTML in a browser?  And any more powerful scripting
> > language than JavaScript?  How could I have missed this all these
> > years?
> >
> > It is amazing how far backwards we went with ASP.NET <http://asp.net/>,
> WPF etc.
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>