Does the “sandbox” that HTML5 defines belong in your company’s Web applications? Long-time Web developer and IT manager Cameron Laird explains when and how a sandbox can improve the HTML your software developers use in creating the organization’s applications.
The HTML5 standard promises “to ease the authoring of Web-based applications,” according to the specification current in summer 2010. Improvements in security are a vital part of that “ease,” especially the iframe “sandbox.” Let’s look at sandbox’s costs and benefits – not how to code with sandbox, but how to decide where to use it, and what the implications will be for your software development team. Before your in-house programmers baffle you by giving you more techie detail than you need to know, here’s what you should understand about the choices inherent in a migration to HTML5.
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