On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:36:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:21:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > Well what other cases are there? Can we enumerate them and come up > > > with similar solutions? > > > > Javascript has timers. We execute rather a lot of javascript from > > sources we can't influence at all. > > Which brings me to yet another gripe I've got with firefox, _WHY_ does > it run javascript for tabs I can't see? Simply freeze the interpreter.
Because people expect gmail to provide them with status updates even if it's not the foreground tab. > Then again, what does JavaScript do with these timers? I don't really > see how javascript/random-native-binary are really different, something > needs doing. What something? I agree that the thing that needs doing probably involves web developers and threats of implied violence, but I suspect that web developers are being created faster than we can reeducate them. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
