Web Sandbox - General

Announcements

• Work items and current limitations

  Dragos ManolescuMSFTMonday, November 03, 2008 8:11 PM
  The following items represent work in progress. Consequently until we check them off they could be regarded as current limitations. They are due to our implementation rather than the sandbox architecture.
  
  

  1. The gadget's HTML must be well-formed.
  2. document.write is partially implemented and not fully debugged.
  3. JavaScript's with statement is unsupported.
  4. The XML proxy allowing gadgets to invoke back-end services is not enabled.
  5. The Dynamic loading of script is unsupported.
  6. Silverlight and Flash objects are unsupported.
  7. Depending on operations, the performance overhead varies between 1.5 and 4 times.

  Should you run into other unexpected surprises we either missed something from the above list or you discovered a bug. Keep us posted.
  
  -Dragos

• Web Sandbox available under the Open Source Apache License 2.0

  Dragos ManolescuMSFTWednesday, January 28, 2009 6:07 AM
   Today, we are announcing that we are making much of the source code for the Web Sandbox project available under the Open Source Apache License 2.0.

  Since the initial release of Web Sandbox we have received a great deal of feedback from the web security community. We have also been collaborating with a number of customers, partners and the standards communities that would like to adopt the technology when it is ready. Our goal is to achieve widespread adoption of Web Sandbox and to help foster interoperability with complementary technologies like script frameworks.

  See the Web Sandbox site for additional licensing details. Thank you for your input to the project so far, and we are excited to continue our collaboration with you.

  (Note: While we are using an Apache License, the Web Sandbox project is not sponsored or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation and is not an ASF project.)

   

  -Dragos