unnouinceput 9 days ago

I was joking in 2007, when I was working at Siemens, to my boss, that an Excel cell can contain God and the Multiverse when I put an ActiveX inside that was basically a program I made which would draw a 3D animation based on parameters contained on other cells. Let's say the boss was impressed though for me was just basic OLE.

I see from time to time that younger generations reinvent/rediscover the wheel and I chuckle.

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pimlottc 8 days ago

Which makes sense, why would browsers randomly add JS to PDF if it wasn’t already part of the standard?

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  • kzrdude 8 days ago

    What a nightmare that JS is a part of the PDF standard. I suppose that it's optional.

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swyx 8 days ago

why??? for what possible secure white hat reason could you want to run js in pdfs??!? is nobody sane running the pdf org?

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  • andreamonaco 4 days ago

    Yeah, I agree.

    I first met an interactive PDF when filing a form for some state matter (I live in Italy).

    I thought that it was over-engineered and dangerous.

    Also, this kind of things tend to gratuitously exclude non-mainstream (especially free) software.

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