[whatwg] @srcdoc and default @sandbox

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 15:39:08 PDT 2010


2010/8/31 Kornel Lesiński <kornel at geekhood.net>:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:13:04 +0100, Justin Schuh <jschuh at chromium.org>
> wrote:
>>> At least as currently drafted, srcdoc is not a security feature. It's a
>>> convenience feature. It is also designed to work well in tandem with a
>>> particular security feature (sandbox). But by itself, it is not a security
>>> feature.
>>
>> Data URLs already provide this.
>
> What about existing UAs that implement data: URIs, but not sandbox?

What about them?

(Remember, the context of the "use data urls" suggestion was to solve
the minority use-case of wanting to fill an <iframe> without a network
request, without triggering sandboxing.)

~TJ



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