[whatwg] Should scripts and plugins in contenteditable content be enabled or disabled?

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> The webkit behavior of allowing all scripts makes the most sense to me. It
> should be possible to disable scripts, but that capability shouldn't be tied
> to editability. The clean solution for the CKEditor developer is to use a
> sandboxed iframe.
>
> I don't see a security benefit for disabling script as you'd have all the
> same issues with loading any user-content in a non-editable area. The only
> catch is that you *do* need to disable script from pasted and drag-dropped
> content (see http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/53442). Basically, any site
> serving user-content will already need to mitigate XSS some other way, so
> disabling script in editable areas is not necessary, but paste/drag-drop
> can't reasonably rely on server-side solutions, so must be done by the UA.
>
> Putting my developer hat on, trying to make Google Gadgets work in Google's
> rich text editor inside Firefox designMode was awful due to
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519928. A large percentage of
> Google Gadgets load as iframes and require javascript onload. We had to play
> tricks with turning off designMode, appending the iframe and turning
> designMode back on. It was an awful solution that never worked very well.
>

That makes sense to me. I'll see what the other editor developers think.

Rob
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