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Achieving proper isolations, however, is very difficult at both the policy-specification level and the implementation level. This paper is focused on the implementations of browser isolation mechanisms. As a concrete example, we discuss the enforcement of the well-defined cross-frame isolation policy, which is supposed to prohibit a script from one Internet domain to access objects in a frame of another domain. Historical data show that even for such a seemingly simple policy, the current implementations of the enforcement mechanisms are surprisingly error-prone, and have been exploited on most major browser products. In this paper, we proposed the script accenting technique as a light-weight transparent defense against the cross-frame attacks. The basic idea is to introduce domain-specific \u201caccents\u201d to the scripts and the object names so that two frames cannot communicate\/interfere if they have different accents. The mechanism has been prototyped on Internet Explorer. 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