[icedtea-web] Idea - do not start ITW applets automatically

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Mon Jan 21 06:55:19 PST 2013


On 01/21/2013 02:32 PM, helpcrypto helpcrypto wrote:
>> I kind of like how Oracle handled this, with a checkbox 'remember this
>> option'. So yes + check = always, no + check = never.
>
> like++
>
>> Ya good point, should be per-applet. The white/black-list will need to be
>> per-applet too (only setting for iteration 1 at least), which I hadn't
>> considered. We'll probably have to use the concept of applet 'unique key'
>> here.
>
> Will this mean the warning will appear after each applet new release?
> We do some minor bug correction in our code, but don't want to annoy
> users each time!
> (Although, to be honest, we use a signed applet, so this is not for us...)
Thanx, valid point.

There will be whitelist possibility. eg http://google.com/safeApplets.* record will match to any applet which base url matches  the regex. So If you like some page to much, then just whtelist it :)

J.



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