On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Benjamin Smedberg
benja...@smedbergs.us wrote:
On 4/16/2014 9:30 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
Allows pages to send a beacon HTTP request. Beacons are allowed a
limited subset of HTTP (only a few content types), and the JS cannot receive
the content of the
On 2014-04-16, 10:52 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
On 4/16/2014 9:30 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
Allows pages to send a beacon HTTP request. Beacons are allowed a
limited subset of HTTP (only a few content types), and the JS cannot
receive the content of the response. However, beacon requests
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Richard Barnes rbar...@mozilla.com wrote:
The specification is currently under development in W3C, but has been
substantially stable for a while.
http://www.w3.org/TR/beacon/
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/tip/specs/Beacon/Overview.html
I think that
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
Are beacons primarily meant as tracking devices, or is it also meant as
a way to persist unsaved page state when the user navigates?
Beacons do not enable any new ways of tracking which is not already
possible.
On Apr 16, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Gavin Sharp ga...@gavinsharp.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Are beacons primarily meant as tracking devices, or is it also meant as
a way to persist unsaved page state when the user navigates?
Beacons
On 4/16/2014 2:18 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
I don't know about problematic, but ISTM that it might be useless. If people disable
sendBeacon in an effort to avoid tracking, then the trackers can always just test and polyfill with
XHR. If you really want disable tracking, you're going to have
Are there any legitimate use-cases for, say, saving document drafts before
navigating? It seems pretty bad to make that silently fail.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Benjamin Smedberg
benja...@smedbergs.uswrote:
On 4/16/2014 2:18 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
I don't know about problematic,
On 2014-04-16, 2:25 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
On 4/16/2014 2:18 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
I don't know about problematic, but ISTM that it might be useless.
If people disable sendBeacon in an effort to avoid tracking, then the
trackers can always just test and polyfill with XHR. If you
On 2014-04-16, 12:14 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Richard Barnes rbar...@mozilla.com wrote:
The specification is currently under development in W3C, but has been
substantially stable for a while.
http://www.w3.org/TR/beacon/
The question was simply are there non-tracking use-cases for sendBeacon,
and it sounds like the simple answer is yes. Still not clear how common
they will be relative to the tracking use cases in practice, though. What
we do in terms of UI and exposing the ability to disable it depends on
better
On 2014-04-16, 5:50 PM, Gavin Sharp wrote:
The question was simply are there non-tracking use-cases for
sendBeacon, and it sounds like the simple answer is yes. Still not
clear how common they will be relative to the tracking use cases in
practice, though. What we do in terms of UI and exposing
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