Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2013-07-16 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Fred Andrews wrote: Why would the user disable JavaScript if they wanted the page to act like JavaScript was enabled? To avoid scripts leaking private state accessible via the DOM and other APIs the user could disable or restrict JS in contexts that have access

Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2012-11-22 Thread Fred Andrews
Dear Ian, Thank you for sharing you views. Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:30:50 + From: i...@hixie.ch To: wha...@whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Jeffrey Pfau wrote: While working on enhancing WebKit's privacy infrastructure, I

Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2012-11-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Jeffrey Pfau wrote: While working on enhancing WebKit's privacy infrastructure, I noticed that shared workers don't have a UA security policy escape clause like localStorage and other APIs. The process to create a shared worker does not allow UAs to abort creation

Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2012-11-20 Thread Elliott Sprehn
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: ... On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Fred Andrews wrote: Feedback and suggestions for appropriate markup to declare web workers would be appreciated. Workers are only usable from script, so just start them in script. No need for

Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2012-08-24 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: To expand a little on rationale for what Jeffrey said: We're working on an experimental preference setting for WebKit to block data storage in a third-party context, similar to the third-party cookie blocking feature

Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2012-08-24 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: To expand a little on rationale for what Jeffrey said: We're working on an experimental preference setting for WebKit to block data storage in a

Re: [whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2012-08-23 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
To expand a little on rationale for what Jeffrey said: We're working on an experimental preference setting for WebKit to block data storage in a third-party context, similar to the third-party cookie blocking feature in many browsers, but covering all forms of client-side storage. The intent

[whatwg] Feedback on Web Worker specification

2012-08-22 Thread Jeffrey Pfau
Hi, While working on enhancing WebKit's privacy infrastructure, I noticed that shared workers don't have a UA security policy escape clause like localStorage and other APIs. The process to create a shared worker does not allow UAs to abort creation with a SecurityError if it decides that a