- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 23:59:24 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
> On 06 May 2015, at 23:46, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
>> As shown in this presentation, firefox used to let you load "javascript:" urls as <image> values, and do fun things like freeze the browser.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WjP7TEKB7Uo#t=1542
>>
>> As far as I can tell, this no longer reproduces, but this should probably be explicitly forbidden by the spec anyway.
>
> Once I rebase CSS's loading behavior on top of the Fetch spec,
> javascript: urls will stop working per spec.
>
> (I don't think I can do much about loading file:///dev/tty, or
> fil:///dev/urandom, or similar bad files.)
Sounds like a plan. When do you plan to do that?
That also means we'll get to do "background: url('about:unicorn')" [1], which sounds like good news to me.
- Florian
[1] https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#unicorn
Received on Wednesday, 6 May 2015 21:59:48 UTC