Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread João Eiras
On Tue, 06 May 2014 01:29:47 +0200, Kenneth Russell k...@google.com wrote: Applications need this API in order to determine how many Web Workers to instantiate in order to parallelize their work. On Tue, 06 May 2014 01:31:15 +0200, Eli Grey m...@eligrey.com wrote: I have a list of example

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread David Young
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:05:35PM -0700, Rik Cabanier wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:10 AM, David Young dyo...@pobox.com wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 10:49:00AM -0700, Adam Barth wrote: Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator that reports the

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Joe Gregorio
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM, João Eiras jo...@opera.com wrote: ... I guess everyone that is reading this thread understands the use cases well and agrees with them. The disagreement is what kind of API you need. Many people, rightly so, have stated that a core count gives little

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Joe Gregorio jcgrego...@google.com wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM, João Eiras jo...@opera.com wrote: ... I guess everyone that is reading this thread understands the use cases well and agrees with them. The disagreement is what kind of API you

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 5/6/14, 5:30 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote: Leaving the question of fingerprinting aside for now, what name would people prefer? mauve? Failing that, maxUsefulWorkers? -Boris

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: You're right that Panopticlick doesn't bother to spend the few seconds it takes to estimate the number of cores because it already has sufficient information to fingerprint 99.1% of visitors:

Re: [whatwg] Various autocomplete= topics

2014-05-06 Thread Evan Stade
Dunno if you still wanted answers to these questions, but in order to not leave you hanging here are my best attempts: On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Evan Stade wrote: dependent-locality and locality have a fairly precise meaning in the UK. Also in a natural-language conversation, if you ask me

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Glenn Maynard gl...@zewt.org wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: You're right that Panopticlick doesn't bother to spend the few seconds it takes to estimate the number of cores because it already has sufficient

[whatwg] More URL spec feedback

2014-05-06 Thread Joshua Cranmer
Hi, I'm back with more questions on the URL spec after poking at it a bit more for various purposes. One thing I've noticed is that the specification currently aggressively fails IPv6 address matching, so, e.g., new URL(http://[::1::];) would fail. (Although it allows http://[1:2:3:4:5:6::8]/

[whatwg] Proposal: Event.creationTime

2014-05-06 Thread Brian Birtles
Hi, Gecko's implementation of Event.timeStamp does not conform to the spec[1] since it reports the number of milliseconds since system start rather than 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. This is tracked as Mozilla bug 77992 [2]. DOM Level 2 allowed this[3] but the spec has since changed. One