[whatwg] api for fullscreen() - security issues

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Simon Fraser <smfr at me.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> > On Jan 31, 2010, at 05:08, Simon Fraser wrote:
> >
> >> * disallow enterFullscreen() from a frame or iframe
> >
> > This might be a problem if video sites transition their embedding
> boilerplate to an iframe in order to be able to be able to serve HTML5,
> Flash, ActiveX, etc. depending on UA without requiring the embedders to copy
> and paste anything fancy.
>
> Perhaps we'd enforce a same-origin rule where the iframe contents have to
> be from the same domain as the main page, then?
>

I think that wouldn't work because people will want to serve the IFRAME
document from the video site.

However, I'd very very reluctant to allow subframes to go fullscreen by
default. I haven't got any specific attack scenarios in mind, but it seems
to add to the power of clickjacking, which is the last thing we need.

How about denying fullscreen from subdocuments by default, and allow opt-in
with an attribute on <iframe>, say "allowfullscreen"?

Note that same-origin IFRAMEs can reach into their parent document and make
it fullscreen, and make the IFRAME position:fixed etc, to effectively make
themselves fullscreen (albeit not very conveniently).

Rob
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