Simon Willison’s Weblog

Yahoo, Caja, OpenSocial. Yahoo!’s new application platform uses OpenSocial, and protects itself from malicious JavaScript using Google’s Caja secure JavaScript engine. I hadn’t realised that Caja was ready for production use—this is excellent news.

# 30th October 2008, 5:14 pm / caja, javascript, opensocial, security, yahoo

An OpenSocial Foundation. “Today we are pleased to announce that Google is joining together with Yahoo! and MySpace in the creation of a non-profit foundation for the open and transparent governance of the OpenSocial specifications and intellectual property.” Good move; I’d personally love to see this happen with Google Gears.

# 25th March 2008, 2:51 pm / google, google-gears, myspace, opensocial, yahoo