Live Labs has released a public preview of their Javascript sandbox. http://websandbox.livelabs.com/ See the clock sample: ...
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Mark S. Miller
erights@...
Nov 6, 2008 10:34 pm
The EcmaScript 3.1 draft standard is rapidly congealing towards an official standard. The Kona version at < ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 3, 2009 4:59 pm
I added another sample page. This one shows two simple widgets that coexist. http://adsafe.org/roman.html...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Jan 5, 2009 9:14 pm
The w3c Technical Architecture Group (TAG) discuss ocaps for the web starting at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/12/10-minutes#item03 teaser sample: 'DO: SW...
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Bill Frantz
frantz@...
Jan 5, 2009 10:35 pm
... For me, the highlight was, "Crockford says add a switch in Firefox to disable non-adSafe ads". If this feature gets adopted, and used, we'll see an...
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Tyler Close
tjclose
Jan 6, 2009 12:17 am
At the end of the minutes, it looks like the TAG is casting about for a next step. One useful step would be to consider amending the web-arch document's...
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Mark S. Miller
erights@...
Jan 6, 2009 2:35 am
http://apps.yahoo.com/-yNmsEV4q/ I'm "ocap capo". It (and therefore Caja) also work on an iPhone. Thanks to the Yahoo! and Zynga folks! -- Cheers, --MarkM...
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Larry Koved
larrykoved
Jan 18, 2009 2:38 am
This is announcement of the call for papers for the third in a series of successful workshops on topics related to security and privacy for Web 2.0. This...
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Mark Miller
capsecure
Jan 20, 2009 6:15 pm
At http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=ses:ses_proposal_working_draft is posted a very rough first draft for a "Secure ECMAScript" standard, derived from...
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Kris Zyp
kriszyp
Jan 21, 2009 3:10 pm
... Hash: SHA1 Do you have an overview of the differences between SES and ES3.1 (or maybe it is easier to define the differences between SES and Cajita)? I see...
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Mark S. Miller
erights@...
Jan 25, 2009 6:55 am
... Three synergies between ES3.1 strict and SES: * Better target: Easy to translate SES to ES3.1-strict * Better source: Easier to translate ES3.1-strict to...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 9, 2009 5:16 pm
Consider the following JavaScript source: [ /[/]/ /foo]/ + bar According to the ES3 spec, this is interpreted as: [ new RegExp("[") ] / new RegExp("foo]") +...
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Marcel Laverdet
marcel.laverdet
Feb 9, 2009 5:43 pm
From what I remember this started out as a bug in IE and then Firefox followed suit for compatibility which left the other browsers with no choice. I can't...
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Brendan Eich
brendaneich
Feb 9, 2009 6:55 pm
... No, other browsers followed suit first. ... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309840 Quoting from comment 0: Description From Jesse Ruderman...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Feb 9, 2009 9:17 pm
... ADsafe rejects [ /[/]/ /foo]/ + bar. Just because ECMAScript says its ok doesn't mean that ADsafe must. ADsafe insists that all internal / must have \....
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Feb 10, 2009 3:02 am
2009/2/9 Douglas Crockford <douglas@...> ... Cajita disallows regex literals, but Valija uses the ES3.1 rule for lexing regexs and rewrites [ /[/]/...
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Marcel Laverdet
marcel.laverdet
Feb 10, 2009 7:32 am
My apologies....
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Brendan Eich
brendaneich
Feb 10, 2009 9:07 am
No need to apologize, and I did not aim to blame Opera or Safari in citing the record. This was not a situation where anyone fielding a browser compatible...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 10, 2009 2:12 pm
... I could, if I knew that there were no more bugs like this. Note that lexical confusion attacks of this kind can easily be turned into complete breaks of a...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 10, 2009 2:34 pm
... <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309840#c12> # This fixes a highly dup'ed IE compatibility bug. It's an extension # to ECMA syntax that's...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 10, 2009 2:44 pm
... I'm confused -- how does it know that the middle '/' in "/[/]/" is "internal";? Is it lexing according to the intersection of Pattern from section 15.10.1,...
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Brendan Eich
brendaneich
Feb 10, 2009 7:13 pm
... You're right, but so what? The IE bug and monopoly combined to create a de-facto standard. Appealing to the de-jure standard does you no good, and...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Feb 11, 2009 2:36 am
... Plenty. But I suspect you know of them. There's conditional compilation comments /* @cc_on */, and there's the newlines in block comments thing return /*...
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Brendan Eich
brendaneich
Feb 11, 2009 3:10 am
... Fixed in Firefox 3.1 beta nightlies: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475834 We could push the fix back into a 3.0.x maintenance release if it ...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 16, 2009 3:16 pm
Suppose that S is a Unicode string in which each character matches ValidChar below, not containing the subsequences "<!", "</" or "]]>", and not containing...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 16, 2009 4:29 pm
No, I'm not paranoid enough yet. It's not sufficient only to say that the HTML is encoded as UTF-8 (see below). David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: [...] ... I meant,...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Feb 16, 2009 11:38 pm
2009/2/16 David-Sarah Hopwood <david.hopwood@...> ... So no surrogates? ... Why include FFEF? ... You may still be subject to encoding...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 17, 2009 11:13 am
... Correct. They're not characters (or even "noncharacters"). ... It's unassigned, and there's no particular reason to exclude it. (\uFFF0-\uFFF8 are also...
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Mike Samuel
mikesamuel
Feb 17, 2009 6:50 pm
... Isn't it the reflection of fffe, the byte-order-marker. This is probably a very minor issue, but if one part of a parser naively delegates to another...
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David-Sarah Hopwood
david.hopwood@...
Feb 18, 2009 5:26 pm
... [...] ... No, \uFEFF is the BOM, and its byte-reflection \uFFFE is a noncharacter, so already excluded from ValidChar. (Thought you'd spotted something I'd...
