Much like classic XSS cross site scripting holes, this design flaw in IE allows an attacker to retrieve private user data or execute operations on the user's behalf on remote domains.
Quotes about scripting (8 Quotes)
We found that a lot of people were using advanced scripting, multiple files and other advanced tools but don't think of themselves as professional developers. So we repositioned the product and added more stuff for customization--more tool tips and custom menus.
If you don't have anything installed prior to Elements, we will install a version of Bridge. There is a slight difference between the version of Bridge you get with Elements and the one you get with Creative Suite 2. We have basically removed some of the non-consumer things like scripting control, access to Adobe Stock Photos and Version Cue. Otherwise it's pretty much the same functionality.
Acknowledging Monad as Windows' next-generation scripting language, ... Monad has a lot of great capabilities, the most important of which is that it's built on the .NET Framework...It's really the first mainstream command language that's focused on allowing objects, with a full set of services that an object possesses events and methods, and pass those things between different commands.
There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.
Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.
Normally, browsers impose strong restrictions for cross-domain interaction through the Web browser. A certain Web page can make a user browse to a different domain. However, it may not read the content of the retrieved page.... In IE these restrictions ... are broken when it comes to CSS cascading style sheet imports. I call this attack CSSXSS or Cascading Style Sheets Cross Site Scripting.
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.