[whatwg] HTML Specification update request: bug 20939

[Bob Owen]

Hi,

Has anyone had a chance to look at my proposals to improve the HTML
specification with regard to navigating browsing contexts while sandboxed?

Thanks,
Bob


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> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:26:12 +0000
> From: Bob Owen <bobowencode at gmail.com>
> To: whatwg at whatwg.org
> Subject: [whatwg] HTML Specification update request: bug 20939
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> Hi,
>
> While discussing with Boris Zbarsky, some work I am doing on sandboxing for
> Mozilla, we realised that the sections in the HTML specification on
> browsing context security and browsing context names, could do with some
> clarification with regard to the effects of sandboxing.
>
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html#security-nav
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html#browsing-context-names
>
> The non-normative table, in the browsing context names section, does cover
> many of the effects.
> However, if the normative text in these two sections is read on its own,
> without knowledge of the sandboxing sections, then the reader could easily
> come away with an incorrect understanding.
>
> I have raised the following bug detailing all of this.
>
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20939
>
> The bug also contains some suggestions for new rows that could be added to
> the non-normative table.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
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