[whatwg] Comments on @sandbox

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Adam Barth wrote:
> > 
> > == allow-same-origin + allow-script ==
> > 
> > It's clear that adding both allow-same-origin and allow-script to 
> > @sandbox at the same time make the sandbox useless because the 
> > sandboxed content can simply reach outside the frame and remove the 
> > sandbox attribute.  Should we disallow setting these values at the 
> > same time?  If an author does set both, maybe we should only pay 
> > attention to one?
>
> Done. allow-same-origin now overrides allow-scripts.

Er, sorry. That was a momentary lapse of attention. I've reverted this 
change.

allow-same-origin and allow-scripts can be usefully set together when the 
origin of the embedded page is not the same as the origin of the embedding 
page. I'll add a warning about it being somewhat pointless to use them 
together in same-origin cases, though.

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