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April 25, 2007

Apollo, security

Apollo, security: "Brad Neuberg, a developer with SitePen who created the Dojo Offline technology, argued that Adobe's approach is less secure because the online application is provided with full access to the local system." The Apollo project lets normal Ajax or SWF webapps become standalone, cross-platform applications. This includes the ability to read/write files and to invoke other applications. Dojo is working at improving the in-browser experience. Two very different things -- the ability to store data via Adobe Flash Player is their only similarity. You would certainly not accept Apollo apps from strangers as freely as you would their webpages. The ability to work with the local filesystem turns a webpage into an application.

Posted by JohnDowdell at April 25, 2007 10:28 PM

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"and to invoke other applications"

I don't think that is true. At least not for 1.0: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/message/877

Posted by: Ben at April 26, 2007 05:31 AM