Re: [whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to the current web

2008-09-27 Thread Smylers
Elliotte Harold writes: People want to get pictures, text, and other media from the web. People want to play games and use some apps. Users don't care where the media is loaded from. If it can be loaded form a single server, then the users' needs are met. I see no genuine user use cases

Re: [whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to the current web

2008-09-27 Thread Elliotte Harold
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: In order to store guest media: 1. The mirror host would need a broadcasting licence. 2. The mirror host would have to support the encoder (if it supports dynamic resolution adjustment). 3. If it is Flash, the player might refuse to play if loaded from a different URL

[whatwg] video tag : loop for ever

2008-09-27 Thread Biju [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I make a video loop for ever? Will playcount = infinity works? TIA Biju

Re: [whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to the current web

2008-09-27 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
If you set up a mirror with the same host name as the content provider has, you will probably get sued for identity theft, cybersquatting, forgery or whatever. Chris -Original Message- From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:22 PM To: Kristof

Re: [whatwg] video tag : loop for ever

2008-09-27 Thread Jorgen Horstink
I understand the conceptual problem with this, but why don't you just use a large number? If the video is 1 sec, with a playcount set to 999 it will keep running at least three months; longer than any webpage is in memory. jorgen On Sep 27, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Biju [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] video tag : loop for ever

2008-09-27 Thread Biju [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Jorgen Horstink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but why don't you just use a large number? If the video is 1 sec, with a playcount set to 999 it will I know that is a work around for web developer... But here is a the problem. Many software Video players have a

Re: [whatwg] video tag : loop for ever

2008-09-27 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:27:54 +1000, Jorgen Horstink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the conceptual problem with this, but why don't you just use a large number? If the video is 1 sec, with a playcount set to 999 it will keep running at least three months; longer than any

Re: [whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to the current web

2008-09-27 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Michal Zalewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Robert O'Callahan wrote: Default permission of cross-domain loads is responsible for *a lot* of problems. Allowing sites to escape that would address a lot of problems, even if it is opt-in.