Is this implemented on the Mac?  This seems like a mapping from
NativeViewId to whatever the Mac version of an HWND is, which sounds
similar to gtk_native_view_id_manager...

Adam


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Amanda Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Mac needs something morally equivalent to #2 (with plugins as the
> current forcing function--there's no cross-process window handle we
> can use, so we need to track them ourselves anyway).  I also strongly
> agree that the browser needs to be able to validate which window(s) a
> renderer can ask about, rather than blindly interpreting an untrusted
> parameter as an HWND.
>
> --Amanda
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Currently we have a handful of renderer -> browser IPC messages that
>> contain gfx::NativeViewIds:
>>
>> ViewHostMsg_GetWindowRect
>> ViewHostMsg_GetScreenInfo
>> ViewHostMsg_GetRootWindowRect
>> ViewHostMsg_GetRootWindowResizerRect
>> ViewHostMsg_ScriptedPrint
>>
>> These make me sad because the render could ask about random
>> NativeViewIds (HWNDs) that have nothing to do with that renderer.
>> There are two approaches we can use to correct these infelicities:
>>
>> 1) Change these message to avoid sending NativeViewIds.  This seems
>> possible, but some unknown amount of work.
>>
>> 2) Add more state to RendererSecurityPolicy that tracks which
>> NativeViewIds each renderer is permitted to interrogate.
>>
>> I'm inclined to go with (2), but I wanted to check in with Mac / Linux
>> folks to make sure this makes sense for those platforms too.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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