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The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites (sansec.io)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by 0x815@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain. Notable users are JSTOR, Intuit and World Economic Forum. However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io. Any complaints were quickly removed (archive here) from the Github repository.

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[–] parpol@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Accessibility is orthogonal to JavaScript if the site is being built to modern standards.

In other words, accessibility is in the hands of the developers, not the visitor. And the developer really wants that scrolling background and non-selectable text, so tough luck, people with no hands, I guess.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well, by that measure, you don't need JavaScript to make inaccessible sites, there are plenty of sites out there that ruin accessibility with just HTML and CSS alone.

It's always up to the developer to make sure the site is accessible. At least now it seems to be something that increasingly matters to search result rankings

[–] parpol@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

You really can't. If it was only HTML and CSS, any accessibility program would be able to select any part of the page, and easily alter the CSS and HTML. That is next to impossible now because of JavaScript.

It shouldn't be up to the website developer. It should be up to the browser developer. You don't blame a lemmy instance for poor accessibility with Jerboa.