Re: Sanatising HTML content through sandboxing

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:
> Also, a div doesn't represent a security boundary.  It's difficult to
> sandbox something unless you have a security boundary around it.
> IMHO, an easy way to solve this problem is to just exposes an
> HTMLParser object, analogous to DOMParser, which folks can use to
> safely parse HTML,

DOMParser.parseFromString already takes a content type as the second
argument. The plan is to support HTML parsing when the second argument
is text/html.

> e.g., from XMLHttpRequest.

XMLHttpRequest Level 2 has built-in support for HTML parsing. No need
to first get responseText and then pass it to something else.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:06:37 UTC