v0.3 Release – Problems with my Patch for bug 459727

Lately there has been some activity on bug 459727 concerning the patch I had submitted to implement an OnScroll feature for the pushlog. View comments 8 and 9 to see the problems that jorendorff as identified. So far there hasn’t been an official review but it is inevitable that I will have to make changes to the patch I had submitted.

In comments 10 and 12 I underlined what steps I will be taking to fix the problems that jorendorff has identified so far. They don’t seem to be major changes although I am worried about using JSON.parse(). I don’t know if that will work or not. I guess I will have to try it out and see what I can do.

Also I don’t really understand what is wrong with using `new Function(“return ” + entries.responseText) ()` as jorendorff mentioned in comment 9. In comment 11, Justin mentioned that it may cause vulnerabilities to XSS attacks but he couldn’t explain why that was. This has me interested and I would love it if someone could tell me why.

This is the biggest patch I submitted for my v0.2 so I’m expecting to go through several iterations before the patch is accepted. Look out for a new patch soon…

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