On Aug 29, 2009, at 00:47, David Bennett wrote:
There currently is no way to detect the system idle state in the browser. This makes it difficult to deal with any sort of chat room or instant messaging client inside the browser since the idle will always be incorrect.
How could such a notification be abused? The first abuse use case I can think of is throttling Web Workers-based botnet computation to be less detectable by the user (i.e. taking over the user's compute resources while the user isn't experiencing the slowdown).
-- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
