[whatwg] The origin of pages on the local file system

2008-04-30 Thread Jeff Walden
It was brought up during the latest postMessage patching in Mozilla that the HTML5-mandated origin for file: URIs groups all local file system pages into a single origin. Pages are increasingly being used in application-like contexts, and if Java is any example, grouping all files into the

Re: [whatwg] The origin of pages on the local file system

2008-04-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jeff Walden wrote: It was brought up during the latest postMessage patching in Mozilla that the HTML5-mandated origin for file: URIs groups all local file system pages into a single origin. Pages are increasingly being used in application-like contexts, and if Java is