[whatwg] Potenial Security Problem in Global Storage Specification

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Fri Jun 1 02:45:59 PDT 2007


Ian Hickson wrote:
> Yeah, this is mentioned in the security section:
> 
>    http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#security5
> 
> ...along with recommended solutions to mitigate it.

All of those mitigation measures seem to be non-ideal.

Have any browser makers expressed opinions on which of them they are 
planning to implement?

Is there a document somewhere outlining the actual benefits of this 
feature, even as potentially restricted?

Gerv



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