(Belatedly)

This will be a pure javascript feature.  It'll just happen to use
javascript provided by the Caja project.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ps, i haven't had a lot of time recently to closely follow the discussion
> and concepts around the sanitizeHtml work, however from what i gather from
> quickly glancing over this thread is that this is going to be a Caja based
> feature right? (as opposed to a JS based one that i was personally hoping
> for :)).
>
> It'll be good to keep in mind that if a number of containers don't have
> access to Caja (either they have a custom implementation such as some asian
> sites have), or use the PHP version, this feature might render quite
> different results on those containers, especially since the spec is quite
> vague on what exactly it's supposed to do and what end result can be
> expected.
>
> So before you go update the docs based on one implementation, keep that in
> mind please :) (and take any doc / spec change proposals to the spec list
> ofc, and not the shindig lists)
>
>        -- Chris
>
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Brian Eaton wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jasvir Nagra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure, I can push a caja.jar that splits off the html-sanitizer
>>> depended javascript out of domita-minified.  I'm adopting the
>>> following names:
>>>
>>> * domita-minified.js (domita+caja without html sanitizer)
>>> * html-sanitizer-minified.js (html4-defs + css-defs + html-sanitizer)
>>
>> Sounds good.
>>
>>> Some features of html-sanitizer to be aware of... it expects and
>>> outputs balanced set of tags.  So it will ignore extraneous close tags
>>> or insert closing tags are necessary.  I can't find any documentation
>>> on what sanitzeHTML is supposed to output other than that it is safe
>>> to set innerHTML to.  If the behaviour of html-sanitizer is
>>> acceptable, it should probably be added to the documentation
>>> somewhere.
>>
>> I'd rather leave the documentation vague so we have the freedom to
>> change.  For now, it's magic security dust.
>
>

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