JavaScript sandbox using Web Workers ...

We have been sandboxing JavaScript in iframes for a long time. The Web Worker API has the nice property that it doesn have access to objects like document and the like, and just runs code that you can pass over to it.

With this, Elijah Grey has created an experimental jsandbox API that gives you an eval function that you pass in some code, and optionally input data, callback for results, and an onerror callback.

Code looks like this:
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JAVASCRIPT:

   1.
   2.jsandbox
   3..eval({
   4.code    : "x=1;Math.round(Math.pow(input, ++x))",
   5.input   : 36.565010597564445,
   6.callback: function(n) {
   7.console.log("number: ", n); // number: 1337
   8.}
   9.}).eval({
  10.code   : "][];.] (*# ($(! ~",
  11.onerror: function(ex) {
  12.console.log("syntax error: ", ex); // syntax error: [error object]
  13.}
  14.}).eval({
  15.code    : "foo"+input,
  16.input   : "bar",
  17.callback: function(str) {
  18.console.log("string: ", str); // string: foobar
  19.}
  20.}).eval({
  21.code    : "({q:1, w:2})",
  22.callback: function(obj) {
  23.console.log("object: ", obj); // object: object q=1 w=2
  24.}
  25.}).eval({
  26.code    : "[1, 2, 3].concat(input)",
  27.input   : [4, 5, 6],
  28.callback: function(arr) {
  29.console.log("array: ", arr); // array: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  30.}
  31.}).eval({
  32.code    : "function x(z){this.y=z;};new x(input)",
  33.input   : 4,
  34.callback: function(x) {
  35.console.log("new x: ", x); // new x: object y=4
  36.}
  37.});
  38.

 Original Source:
http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-sandbox-using-web-workers