[Bug 12820] Hi guys, I am finding it frustrating that security features prevent me from writing a useful app in HTML5 that will run solely on the client machine. It seems that windows can talk to each other if their is a parent / child relationship - UNLESS you load

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12820

Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-06-26 22:59:34 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: If files are saved to the local machine, we cannot tell what sites
they came from.  If we let your site's files access other HTML files from the
same site, we'd have to let it access HTML files from other sites too, and that
could be a privacy violation.  For instance, maybe your files are in a
downloads folder together with sensitive HTML files (e.g., internal corporate
memos) that your files should not have access to.

I encourage you to either make sure your downloaded site consists of only one
HTML file (very practical if you use JavaScript), or consider some other
delivery mechanism like application caches.

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Received on Sunday, 26 June 2011 22:59:40 UTC