A couple of days back, I was discussing with a friend, the permissions that iFrame can have to its parents, sibling frames and children on different domains. Though I assumed that the policy was always decendant, I realized that it has not always been true. I quickly wrote a simple HTML page that would allow me to play around with pages. I quickly defined two aliases for my local server and started playing around.
I could have used firebug to inspect the iFrames, but I am not sure I could see environment as I would, from inside a child iFrame. Hence, I also included a simple Javascript console inside the pages that would allow me to create child frames, inspect properties and permissions. Here is the iFrame that you could use to experiment.
I also found this interesting paper that talks about the policies of frames in details. About the commands on the console, I added just one convince method called addFrame() that adds a frame to the current document.body and returns a reference to it. The shell is from http://www.squa