[HN Gopher] Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
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Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
Author : skilled
Score : 490 points
Date : 2022-02-03 12:44 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| a9h74j wrote:
| Need to justify your disk quota? Now your _tables_ can expand to
| fit the available space. Who said table-based layout was passe.
| trollied wrote:
| Not really. It uses lots of JavaScript.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| This is accurate. But it's also not: any time anything is done
| in any language we can just point at the language below it.
|
| But yeah, this is probably more charitably described as "A CSS
| interface for SQL written in Javascript."
| [deleted]
| pests wrote:
| Okay, but why not call every database extension for a
| language just "A [language] interface for SQL written in
| [driver language]."
|
| "ext/mysqli is just a PHP interface for SQL written in C"
|
| What is the difference
| JasonFruit wrote:
| Still clever, though.
| TameAntelope wrote:
| The challenge isn't to _only_ use CSS, it 's to "connect to a
| DB in CSS", which this does with `--sql-query: SELECT name FROM
| test;`.
|
| So, in the strictest sense, "yes really".
| cush wrote:
| Even without Houdini, we could have always written a piece of
| JS to read all the CSS on a page, and if it contains an SQL
| query, execute it. This implementation has nothing to do with
| CSS, but is obfuscated behind a new fancy api.
| omgmajk wrote:
| An V8 is written in C++ so...
| superkuh wrote:
| CommitStrip, a IT themed comic strip, predicted this in 2019:
| https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/03/15/css-css-everywhere...
| dzhiurgis wrote:
| Reminds me The Expert and 7 perpendicular lines -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MIJP90biM
| 58x14 wrote:
| Here's an actual CSS-only implementation of a chat app that I
| happened to stumble across yesterday while tinkering:
| https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
| simias wrote:
| Is CSS turing complete? If it were you could cross-compile SQLite
| into it. You'll probably want to have it run Doom first though.
| zekenie wrote:
| You're hired
| ljm wrote:
| Author here. While it's true that this depends on JS to work
| (because of the various new CSS Object Model APIs in the
| browser), I think there's enough doubt about my technique here
| that I can submit this for YC2023 and make bank in maybe a decade
| or so.
|
| After all, I remember what everyone said about Dropbox...
| davesque wrote:
| I just want to say that I appreciate you dropping the author
| card just for the sake of making a joke.
| rob74 wrote:
| While it's true that you can query "a DB" using (not only, but
| also) CSS, "the database" which the author of the tweet (or
| "the recruiters") mean is probably running on the server.
| Challenge accepted (of course without using a backend that
| provides access to the DB, that would be too easy)?
| dheera wrote:
| Hacks are cool and awesome! But YC is looking for products and
| customers, not pure hacks.
|
| (Yeah, everyone doubted Dropbox, but everyone doubted every
| other successful and unsuccesful company out there in its early
| stages. People doubting a company isn't much of a signal. Even
| in its early stages Dropbox had a clear monetization and growth
| strategy.)
| cookiengineer wrote:
| Just FYI the paint worklets are also available (at least) in
| WebKit nightly since around August 2021.
|
| So I'd guess that your implementation could work with a few
| modifications on iOS, as the worklets aren't hidden behind a
| compile time feature flag.
|
| Kudos to you, this is exactly why I removed the worklets from
| my retrokit fork :)
| ljm wrote:
| Sadly I don't have any iOS/MacOS devices... maybe I can re-
| host the source on GitHub and engage a community around the
| project.
| barelysapient wrote:
| Nice job. Time to release it as an NPM package I guess?
| anon_123g987 wrote:
| If you want to impress Hacker News, you have to write a browser
| in CSS, too, because currently your work depends on C++.
| pulse7 wrote:
| If CSS property value is not limited in length, you could
| actually put the whole browser source code in it... :-)
| a9h74j wrote:
| > the whole browser source code in it
|
| Starting, of course, with writing CSS in CSS.
|
| (Recently saw a video with one of Thompson or Ritchie,
| IIRC. He described his mentor defining a language, defining
| that language in that language, then hand-translating that
| second definition into machine code. TMG --
| transmogrifier.)
| kingcharles wrote:
| It's CSS all the way down!
|
| What we REALLY need here is to be able to compile CSS
| into x86 so you can write a multi-threaded kernel for
| your CSS-coded browser to run on.
| hateful wrote:
| node.css - here we come.
| anon_123g987 wrote:
| Great! Now all we need is a pure CSS operating system, and
| we're ready to go.
| mindcrime wrote:
| Nah, we still need an FPGA that takes CSS as its
| bitstream format, and a "CSSDL" that lets you define the
| hardware layout in CSS...
| nr2x wrote:
| Where were you able to find a copy of K&R's Necronomicon?
|
| I thought it was banned for this very reason.
| jzig wrote:
| What is K&R's Necronomicon? Link?
| krallja wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon but written by
| the authors of C
| jzig wrote:
| Thanks but still confused. I'm a little familiar with
| Lovecraft as an author, but what is "K&R" and "C"?
| greenyoda wrote:
| "K&R" generally refers to the classical book about the C
| programming language:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
| nr2x wrote:
| "K" is also a HN reader from what I know.
| ljm wrote:
| I invoke an incantation of Undefined Behaviour from one of
| its blackened pages and chant three Alan Kays to manifest it
| in the physical realm
| jorgeleo wrote:
| I think that technically you met the objective: you did make a
| css statement to query a database. What you have to construct
| on the side so it works is a lesson to learn, but at the end
| there was a valid css line that will reach the db.
|
| I think purist try to process the feeling by going on
| deflecting and denial, which is a personal reaction. A common
| one at that, but is not a popularity contest.
|
| As for me, I am having a lot of fun seeing my coworkers cringe
| asking them the question. It is fun.
| ehutch79 wrote:
| You need to put this in the context of some relatively recent
| twitter drama around 'I only know css and html, but am every
| bit as much programmer as anyone else'.
| arjvik wrote:
| This would be a perfect submission to the SIGBOVIK conference!
| beardedetim wrote:
| Don't forget us little people on your way up
| skilled wrote:
| Do I get equity for submitting this?
| ljm wrote:
| I'll give you 5% off the bat and +1% for every 30 minutes
| the post stays at the top. Congrats on being sqlcss.xyz's
| new CMO.
| ghiotion wrote:
| Old school quality shit posting all the way down. I appreciate
| you man.
| adventured wrote:
| > I think there's enough doubt about my technique here that I
| can submit this for YC2023 and make bank in maybe a decade or
| so.
|
| Dropbox was doubt. The response you're seeing isn't doubt or
| skepticism. The responses are proclaiming that your technical
| claim is factually incorrect. They're right - your premise is
| false. You know you can't connect using CSS, which is what the
| quoted text at the top regarding recruiters clearly states, and
| you changed the wording: "using CSS" vs "in CSS."
| [deleted]
| gavinray wrote:
| Title is very misleading
|
| It's just JavaScript that interacts with SQLite and uses CSS
| API's to render the results
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| when a recruiter asks you to connect to a db with css is it
| really wrong to mislead them in this way though?
| rodamaral wrote:
| When a recruiter asks you to connect to a db with css, you
| leave immediately to never return.
| oldsecondhand wrote:
| Or write a strong AI with regular expressions that solves
| the problem for you.
| mindcrime wrote:
| I feel like there's a variation of jwz's famous quote
| waiting to be coined:
|
| "Sometimes, when a programmer confronts a problem, ze
| thinks 'I know, I'll use strong AI', now ze __________."
|
| * has 2 problems?
|
| * has 3 problems?
|
| * has infinite problems?
|
| * has a death wish?
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| but the quote was already wrapped in the parent posters
| idea, since they were writing Strong AI with regular
| expressions!
|
| If you have two problems when using regular expressions
| and you have X problems with Strong AI how will the
| combination of your problems be calculated?
| mindcrime wrote:
| _If you have two problems when using regular expressions
| and you have X problems with Strong AI how will the
| combination of your problems be calculated?_
|
| Well... using a Strong AI, of course!
| mechanical_bear wrote:
| Is this supposed to be an approximation of a foreign
| accent or something?
| mindcrime wrote:
| I assume you mean the "ze" part? If so, no, that's one of
| a series of new pronouns that were coined specifically to
| be gender neutral.
|
| https://www.mypronouns.org/ze-hir
| mechanical_bear wrote:
| Ah yes, that was the part throwing me.
|
| Seems unnecessary when the original quote was already
| gender neutral with the use of they, an actual pronoun
| already in common use?
| mindcrime wrote:
| I wasn't looking at the original quote when I wrote what
| I wrote above, FWIW. And I wanted to avoid the
| instinctive inclination to write "he", so I went with
| "ze" because using "they" for singular case always feels
| forced and awkward to me. But yes, that would have been
| fine as well. It was a choice I made at a moment in time,
| not something that I spent a lot of time analyzing and
| debating. :-)
| [deleted]
| TameAntelope wrote:
| I think I'm going to ask this question in every technical
| interview from now on, as a way of seeing how people deal
| with dumb shit.
|
| Would love to know ahead of time if someone's just going to
| flee when I say something stupid. :)
| unlog wrote:
| I believe the purpose of the article is to expose the paint API,
| rather than trying to claim that has been done with CSS alone.
| Which in some part is true, as CSS is allowing this at all in the
| first place.
| SamBam wrote:
| So we can write Javascript in CSS. Previously we could write CSS
| in Javascript.
|
| If I write a React template that embeds the CSS that embeds this
| Javascript, whose job is it to untangle my mess when I leave the
| company?
| ljm wrote:
| You could write HTML inside your CSS and then use your
| PaintWorklet to render that HTML onto a canvas.
|
| Start with HTML 1.0 so you don't have to support CSS inside
| that HTML.
| c-linkage wrote:
| Maybe it's time for me to switch to a text-only browser.
|
| When CSS becomes Turing-complete it seems that even NoScript
| won't help me from nefarious web pages.
| catfishx wrote:
| But JS is still required to for this to work, the title is a
| bit misleading
| jhoelzel wrote:
| we have come full circle! you should now browse websites with
| the terminal just to be secure. but then you get blocked for
| not having the right headers....
| catfishx wrote:
| I wonder if there are any vulnerabilities in terminals which
| could be exploited
| [deleted]
| charcircuit wrote:
| What does Turing completeness have to do with anything?
| Physical computers aren't even Turing complete themselves.
| colejohnson66 wrote:
| Under what definition is a physical computer _not_ Turing
| Complete? The lack of infinite memory? That requirement would
| preclude literally everything but theoretical computers. It's
| a lot more logical to talk in terms of "if there _was_
| infinite tape, would this thing Turing Complete?"
|
| Brainf** is famously Turing Complete and can be executed on
| any desktop you can think of. That alone is enough to prove
| that your desktop itself is Turing Complete.
| carnitine wrote:
| Turing completeness is a mathematical concept, why try and
| extend it to physical devices? Ever computer I can think of
| corresponds to a finite state machine.
| ggrrhh_ta wrote:
| I think that the parent comment is actually supporting your
| point. It does not need to be Turing Complete to be
| extremely useful. Conversely, a model of computation (CSS)
| could be Turing Complete (with infinite memory, etc.) and
| lack arbitrary access the host filesystem (e.g., it only
| allows to read specific read-only files), thus being
| useless.
| charcircuit wrote:
| Even if you let computers have infinite memory it still
| doesn't matter that much if a language is Turing complete.
| The person I replied to seemed to be more worried about CSS
| reading localstorage compared to being able to recognize a
| recursively enumerable language.
| smoyer wrote:
| Or at a minimum, don't use Chrome ...
| streamofdigits wrote:
| It may really be time to re-examine the text-only proposition
| (gemini style). There is this fear of missing out on visual
| content but I suspect this too could be handled.
| robin_reala wrote:
| CSS is already Turing-complete if you set up an execution
| environment of some checkboxes and require user interaction to
| 'advance the tape': https://stackoverflow.com/a/5239256/453783
| colejohnson66 wrote:
| It is Turing Complete.[0] And before anyone says otherwise,
| Turing Completeness does not preclude a "crank" used in that
| post.
|
| [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5239256/1350209
| carnitine wrote:
| That's definitely not Turing complete. Not because of the
| crank, but the fact the exact number of memory cells is hard
| coded. I can run an n-cell Rule 110 simulation on a DFA,
| which is obviously not Turing complete.
| cestith wrote:
| "Bounded Turing complete" or more accurately a "linear
| bounded automaton" is usually considered a practical enough
| form of Turing equivalency. No real-world computer is
| actually a universal Turing machine.
| tshaddox wrote:
| The exact number of memory cells in your computer is also
| bounded.
| carnitine wrote:
| Yes, but things we actually care and prove to be Turing
| complete are not. There's no up front memory limitation
| in the lambda calculus or Javascript or Prolog.
| tshaddox wrote:
| But you can increase the "hard-coded" amount of memory in
| this CSS demo too.
| carnitine wrote:
| To a finite amount, as part of the program itself. If I
| write a JS program that loops infinitely, pushing a
| number to an array, that will consume infinite memory by
| the standards of the JS spec. There's no hard, upfront
| bound on memory.
|
| If we can hardcode memory limitations in our programs,
| then every 'uncomputable' problem just becomes a lookup
| table.
| tshaddox wrote:
| Isn't it somewhat arbitrary to draw lines between "the JS
| spec" (which might not directly specify any bounds on
| memory usage) and the actual specifications of any given
| machine running JS? I'm pretty sure JS tends to run on a
| 64-bit architecture, for example.
|
| In fact, I'm pretty sure it's not even true that "the JS
| spec" has no such limits. I'm reading that an array can't
| be longer than 2^32. And apparently string length cannot
| exceed 2^53 - 1.
| colejohnson66 wrote:
| If we're going to be pedantic, then yes, no Turing Machines
| exist and everything is just a Finite Automaton. It's more
| helpful when talking about programming languages to assume
| an unbounded memory. For example, the desktop I'm at right
| now has only 16 billion memory cells (16 GiB), but I don't
| think of it as a Finite Automaton.
|
| The linked StackOverflow answer does not preclude adding
| more memory cells. It was just capped at 900 for an
| arbitrary reason.
| rosndo wrote:
| Turing completeness means literally nothing. It's all about the
| APIs.
| zekica wrote:
| CSS is already Turing-complete.
|
| https://lemire.me/blog/2011/03/08/breaking-news-htmlcss-is-t...
| prvak wrote:
| Ugh. Thanks I hate it.
| simonw wrote:
| I built something a tiny bit similar to this (but not nearly as
| clever) a while ago - my trick is to return the results of a SQL
| query as CSS variables so you can use CSS generated content to
| display them on a page: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jan/7/css-
| apis-no-javascript/
| varelaz wrote:
| Technically you could do any web requests which contain SQL in
| query paramaters even before with images/backgrounds and return
| data to the page. The thing is that it cannot work just between
| CSS and DB.
| searchableguy wrote:
| TIL CSS Paint worklet.
|
| Someone could use that to hook in a utility css framework.
| d--b wrote:
| At some point we need to ask who's asking for these CSS features?
|
| Unless it's coming from the NSA who just wants more attack
| surface, I don't see the point...
| udbhavs wrote:
| Worklets can be used to run animation code on a separate
| thread, unlike current JS animation libraries which stutter if
| there is other code blocking it.
| d--b wrote:
| Current css transitions stutter if JS is busy...
| virgilp wrote:
| The connection itself has nothing to do with CSS. This is not
| "connecting to database", it at best "writing SQL queries in
| CSS".
| pests wrote:
| Eh, I think it counts. I mean, aren't most database extensions
| for programming languages not written in the language its
| targeting? When I use mysql_query in PHP, aren't I just
| "writing SQL queries in PHP" and the underlying C driver is the
| one doing it? But we still say PHP can connect to databases.
|
| Its just a driver for CSS written in the host language (JS).
| gmiller123456 wrote:
| The requirement is "connect to the database using CSS", which is
| incredibly vague and ambiguous. It does not bar the use of other
| dependencies, so, IMHO, he complied with the requirements. The
| client could only claim it does not comply by adding new
| requirements.
| cush wrote:
| The title reads like a zero-day attack vector
| s5806533 wrote:
| And yet another example of feature creep in today's browsers. Now
| one can extend CSS with JavaScript.
| bgdam wrote:
| If it doesn't work without Javascript enabled, then it's not a
| CSS solution. I was quite excited by the title, but alas the
| project doesn't live up to the title.
| 3np wrote:
| A more old-school but no-JS solution would be point image/font
| URLs to endpoints that queries a DB on GET requests.
|
| With enough contortions and breaking GET idempotency you could
| probably do a whole CRUD app with just that.
| danbruc wrote:
| In which case you are connecting to a web server that
| connects to a database, you are not connecting to a database.
| vilaca wrote:
| I've seen a few DBs accessible through a REST API.
| berkes wrote:
| Several are _only_ accessible through a HTTP REST API,
| even.
|
| E.g. I'm not aware of an, out of the box, elasticsearch
| interface that is not the HTTP API.
| danbruc wrote:
| This is pure five-minutes-of-serching knowledge, but it
| seems that Elasticsearch is not a database but a search
| engine build on top of Lucene.
| falcor84 wrote:
| To be pedantic here, you're never connecting directly to a
| database, but rather to a DBMS, and it's nowhere set in
| stone that the DBMS must not offer a web interface.
| danbruc wrote:
| I mostly use database instead of DBMS because nobody
| calls it a DBMS, at best a database or SQL server. And I
| actually wondered for a short moment whether there is any
| DBMS with a web server. But I would probably still argue
| that you are connecting to a web server that just happens
| to be integrated into the DMBS. But admittedly at some
| point this turns into a matter of point of view and
| personal preference how to slice the system and label the
| components.
| giraffe_lady wrote:
| Did you see that post from last week
| https://blog.polyglot.network/backend.sql-+-frontend.js-
| love?
|
| You can set arbitrary headers with postgrest so you can
| use it to serve pages. I don't know if this is exactly
| what you mean but it's as close to "dbms with its own web
| server" as I've seen.
|
| It's also just cool lol. Though as much as I like plpgsql
| and it would be hilarious to use it as a templating
| engine I don't really have a use for this.
| cdcarter wrote:
| CouchDB famously has an HTTP protocol.
| mindcrime wrote:
| _And I actually wondered for a short moment whether there
| is any DBMS with a web server._
|
| I don't know if it's still the case or not, but Oracle
| had the option to run a web-server as part of the
| database at one time. Back in the Oracle 8 or Oracle 9
| era, as best as I can remember.
|
| EDIT:
|
| OK, here we go.
|
| https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-
| database/1...
|
| _You can use an embedded version of the PL /SQL gateway
| that runs in the XML DB HTTP Listener in the database. It
| provides the core features of mod_plsql in the database
| but does not require the Oracle HTTP Server. You
| configure the embedded PL/SQL gateway with the DBMS_EPG
| package in the PL/SQL Web Toolkit._
|
| _Some advantages of using the embedded gateway instead
| of mod_plsql are:_
|
| _You can invoke PL /SQL web applications like
| Application Express without installing Oracle HTTP
| Server, thereby simplifying installation, configuration,
| and administration of PL/SQL based web applications._
| sophacles wrote:
| You never connect to a DBMS. Everything you're doing to
| interact with it, or a web server is mediated by your OS.
| You just open sockets and the connection is handled by
| TCP or IPC or whatever.
| danbruc wrote:
| You never really open a socket, you really only push and
| pull some electrons around and then...
| NavinF wrote:
| (+deg#deg)+( +-+
| BeefWellington wrote:
| That's not entirely true. You can absolutely load
| underlying data structures into your own application, and
| in fact this is how a lot of older database tech used to
| be. Stuff like dBase, Access, etc., used to be literally
| "load database into program memory" or "read database
| format from file" - similar to what SQLite does now.
|
| I wonder if CSS could implement sqlite...
| danbruc wrote:
| But even in that case you are - at least usually - still
| interacting with some kind of DBMS. I am not really
| familiar with the examples you named but with SQL Server
| Compact you are essentially just loading and running the
| DBMS in your process. But as I said in my other reply, at
| some point the distinctions become blurry.
| BeefWellington wrote:
| I'd propose the litmus test for this is "can it initiate
| action on its own, or does it require your code to do
| so." In this vein, SQLite is not actually a DBMS while
| Postgres is. The actual Management System parts are
| things that handle backup, replication, auth, logging,
| etc.
|
| The database parts are dealing with areas that must have
| some triggering action (calling a stored procedure,
| running a trigger, selecting a resultset, that kind of
| thing) for anything to happen.
|
| The lines are blurring, yes. What's interesting is the
| 4GL systems which do the reverse (colocate your apps with
| your data for speed).
| danbruc wrote:
| I think that definition is way to narrow, the management
| in DBMS refers to managing the data, keeping it
| consistent, laying it out on disk and in memory, reading,
| updating and deleting it. To address the things you
| named, DBMSs are not required to support backups or
| replication, authentication and logging happens during
| actions you initiate.
| ruined wrote:
| im pretty sure that's just called an api
| myfonj wrote:
| Exactly, was thinking along the same lines.
|
| While I appreciate the "shipostedness" in fulfilling the task
| "connect to DB in CSS" by cramming whole SQL database into
| CSS custom property and working with it using paint worklet
| (this would probably not even remotely cross my mind ever),
| with more pragmatic approach I don't see requirement of
| having actual database in the CSS in the original tweet, so
| single boring URL endpoint reading the SQL query from
| parameter and responding with CSS a la `:root { --result:
| 'whatever'; }` should accomplish given task as well, without
| those Houdini's stunts: @import
| "sql.css?query=Robert')%3B%20DROP%20TABLE%20Students%3B--"
| body::before { content: var(--result); }
|
| (I guess browsers do URI encoding anyway, so probably no need
| to encode it by hand).
|
| Or perhaps even more simple with render to image (like
| `<!..><svg ...><text>whatever</text></svg>`.
| body::before { content: url(sql.svg?query=...); }
|
| That paint worklet does something similar anyway, but instead
| of `background: paint(...);` this would be `... url(...)`.
|
| If JS and/or strictly static server-side is a must, the
| sql.css / sql.svg could be handled by a service worker with
| that sql-asm.js at disposal.
| OJFord wrote:
| I saw an HN comment recently saying that CSS is Turing
| complete; this sort of example makes me wonder if there's a
| formal model of side-effects and ability to do things like
| interface with I/O including NICs in order to make web/db/etc.
| requests?
|
| Or maybe it doesn't even need (a separate) one, because all a
| Turing machine needs is some other 'networking machine' to be
| looking at some designated area on tape (I'm describing DMA
| essentially, I suppose)? And maybe what else happens externally
| in response to what's on the designated tape area is
| uninteresting/completely arbitrary and doesn't need
| to/inherently can't be formally modelled?
| erk__ wrote:
| One idea a bit in this direction I have heard about is if a
| language is "Pacman-Complete" that is it can be used to
| implement Pacman
| SamBam wrote:
| I thought Doom was the standard game people try to get
| working on all manner of ridiculous devices. So Doom-
| complete.
| colonwqbang wrote:
| The tape machine model is one way of looking at it. Another
| is the type of functions (expressions) that can be computed.
| A turing complete process can compute general recursive
| functions.
|
| I think of this very informally as having not only for()
| loops with fixed bounds on the loop index, but also while()
| loops where you don't know beforehand how many loops it will
| take to compute something. Alternatively you can express the
| same thing in terms of recursion. One characteristic is that
| it's possible to describe computations that never finish.
| Another is that you cannot always tell from looking at a
| particular program if it will ever finish.
|
| Exactly how or if the result of a computation becomes
| apparent to the outside world, I think is not part of the
| theoretical description.
| kkjjkgjjgg wrote:
| "A new set of APIs affectionately known as Houdini" - love it :-)
| I suppose because they provide so many means for escaping the
| browser sandbox?
| testplzignore wrote:
| I'm not satisfied until I see a quine.
| [deleted]
| rvz wrote:
| As many have pointed out, it is still using Javascript.
|
| > As the name might suggest, this is how you connect to a
| database using CSS. It only works in Chrome, unfortunately.
|
| Now we know why Firefox isn't widely used for more advanced
| websites and why tons of Chrome-based browsers exist.
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| Sounds like another reason to avoid Chrome.
| udbhavs wrote:
| Fantastic. The next step is to create a declarative query model
| using CSS, complete with the built in CSS selector model. (Eg. if
| a div of class .a is inside a div of class .b, all the query
| parameters of .b get applied to .a). Then someone can create a
| Tailwind-like utility library for that and we're back to SQL
| echan00 wrote:
| Hilarious to the max
| numlock86 wrote:
| One of the many reasons why you should use SRI and other security
| measures even on CSS resources and not just <script>s.
| webmaven wrote:
| But do mauve SQL databases have the most RAM?
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| Love this just because I empathize with struggling with js
| worklets!
| ivan_gammel wrote:
| The first question that naturally comes out of it is when we
| should expect an exploit, because it does look like a rich source
| of vulnerabilities.
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