RE: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-21 Thread Travis Leithead
: Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21 On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Wilson atwil...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: That's why we're working on trying to fix fingerprinting. The point

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-21 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: Please correct me if I'm missing something, but I don't see any new privacy-leak vectors here. Without Shared Workers, 3rdparty.com can just hold open a communication channel to its server and shuttle information between the iframes on A.com and B.com that way. That does

RE: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Travis Leithead
...@w3.org [mailto:public-webapps-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Barstow Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 5:42 PM To: ext Jonas Sicking Cc: public-webapps Subject: Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21 On Apr/14/2011 6:39 PM, ext Jonas Sicking wrote: On Thu

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Travis Leithead travis.leith...@microsoft.com wrote: (This time before the deadline :) Microsoft has the following additional feedback for this Last Call of Web Workers. We are concerned about the privacy implications we discovered when reviewing the

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Wilson
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.comwrote: Please correct me if I'm missing something, but I don't see any new privacy-leak vectors here. Without Shared Workers, 3rdparty.com can just hold open a communication channel to its server and shuttle information

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Travis Leithead travis.leith...@microsoft.com wrote: (This time before the deadline :) Microsoft has the following additional feedback for this Last Call of Web Workers. We are

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Please correct me if I'm missing something, but I don't see any new privacy-leak vectors here.  Without Shared Workers, 3rdparty.com can just hold

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: Please correct me if I'm missing something, but I don't see any new

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote:

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Wilson
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: That's why we're working on trying to fix fingerprinting. The point is that privacy is something that we're all working on trying to improve (right?), and the WebWorkers spec needs to be changed to aid with that. As far

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Wilson atwil...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: That's why we're working on trying to fix fingerprinting. The point is that privacy is something that we're all working on trying to improve

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 4/20/11 3:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: Please correct me if I'm missing something, but I don't see any new privacy-leak vectors here. Without Shared Workers, 3rdparty.com can just hold open a communication channel to its server Unless you have a firewall or proxy that prevents that

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 4/20/11 6:57 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: True, you need some side-channel to link the two iframes for a particular client. You can use something simple like one of the *other* within-domain communication mediums (cookies, localStorage, etc.) Which is why there are options to restrict

RE: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Travis Leithead wrote: We are concerned about the privacy implications we discovered when reviewing the current web workers editor's draft in its treatment of shared workers [1]. Specifically, the spec as currently written allows for 3rd party content to use shared

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-14 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: This is a Request for Comments for the March 10 Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-workers-20110310/ If you have any comments, please send them to the following list by 21 April

Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21

2011-04-14 Thread Arthur Barstow
On Apr/14/2011 6:39 PM, ext Jonas Sicking wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Arthur Barstowart.bars...@nokia.com wrote: This is a Request for Comments for the March 10 Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-workers-20110310/ If you have any comments, please