GeezerVison is showing www.adsafe.org — ADsafe: JavaScript, with boundaries
JavaScript, with boundaries. Learn how a restricted language limited guest code. Follow its controlled interface to the page.
Understand the boundary → Read the reference Widget Structure ↗ How the host, HTML fragment and guest code fit together.
DOM API ↗ Selections, bunch objects and a mediated view of the document.
The runtime source ↗ Read the historical implementation with its original notice.
From the notebook JavaScript · A practical introduction
A small API and an enforced boundary are different things. Follow the objects, permissions and browser mechanisms involved.
Read the article → Explore an example About this edition New explanations of a historic project, with the original JavaScript topic and routes retained.
These examples are newly written. They do not load the legacy runtime or claim ADsafe validation.
How this site uses sources → Explore the reference Getting started with ADsafe Read the historical ADsafe workflow: the JavaScript subset, a DIV wrapper, shared ID prefixes, validation and approved libraries.
ADsafe API reference Reference for ADSAFE.go, id, lib, get and set, DOM queries, bunch objects, events and restricted names, checked against the bundled runtime.
ADsafe security model and limits Understand ADsafe’s trusted host, restricted language, mediated DOM, capability leakage, prototype assumptions and historical limitations.
ADsafe examples, step by step Walk through a bounded text update, an event handler and local widget state, then read the Roman, Bats and Sudoku examples with their limits in view.
JavaScript sandboxing explained Learn the object-capability idea behind ADsafe and compare its historical subset with Caja, SES compartments and browser sandboxed iframes.
A short history of ADsafe A source-led account of Douglas Crockford’s historical ADsafe project, its original documentation, the bundled runtime and this independent edition.
ADsafe questions and answers Answers about ADsafe validation, guest widgets, DIV identifiers, approved libraries, dynamic properties, events and the limits of this historical reference.
ADsafe glossary Definitions of ADsafe terms: guest, host, widget, capability, verifier, bunch, hunters, peckers, mediated DOM, library and interceptor.
