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Bug 14844 - This specification prevents a single document, relying on no outside content, from converting an in-document SVG to a PNG. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8158312/rasterizing-an-in-document-svg-to-canvas
Summary: This specification prevents a single document, relying on no outside content,...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-11-16 20:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-11-16 20:51:03 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/origin-0.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#origin-0
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#origin-0

Comment:
This specification prevents a single document, relying on no outside content,
from converting an in-document SVG to a PNG. See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8158312/rasterizing-an-in-document-svg-to-c
anvas

Posted from: 216.228.112.21
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.36 Safari/535.7
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-08 00:02:13 UTC 
Yeah. It's because even such a document can e.g. include <a> links to outside pages (leaking the user's session history) or can include editable text with spelling correct underlines (leaking the user's name, potentially), or can include form controls (leaking the user's preferred OS skin), etc.