In the questions after my @media ajax talk, Simon Willison asked about frame busting. If gadgets sit inside iframes, what’s to stop them from busting the frame, i.e. replacing the container with another website. I notice he made a similar comment when OpenSocial came out. If a gadget can cause iGoogle to go away in [...]
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Frame-Busting Gadgets
September 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · SoftwareDev
Tags: Add new tag·Ajax·AjaxPatterns·Gadget·iGoogle·OpenSocial·Security
Relative Paths and On-Demand Calls in Gadgets
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
A problem with the current opensocial gadget spec is that there's no relative path support. This means you end up hard-coding any references to Javascripts, CSS stylesheets, images, and services which are distributed along with your gadget.
This is not good. For example, you may have a "prod" setup and a "dev" setup. While developing, you [...]
