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lenkite on Jan 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail ...

IMHO javascript should never have been allowed in the address bar or even inline in an href. The first time I learned about this feature of a browser, I was thinking 'security defect'.

roywiggins on Jan 11, 2017 [–]

It's not Javascript, it's a data URI that renders an HTML page.

_nalply on Jan 11, 2017 | [–]

which contains JavaScript

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