Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Tobie Langel
On May 4, 2014, at 7:45, Rik Cabanier caban...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey m...@eligrey.com wrote: The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles all of the CPUs you mentioned properly. Intel CPUs with hyperthreading enabled report logical

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Adam Barth
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tobie Langel tobie.lan...@gmail.comwrote: On May 4, 2014, at 7:45, Rik Cabanier caban...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey m...@eligrey.com wrote: The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles all of the CPUs

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 3 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator that reports the number of cores [2]. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6pQClqfCp4 [2] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores Some of

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Adam Barth
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator that reports the number of cores [2]. [1]

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator that reports the number of cores [2]. [1]

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tobie Langel tobie.lan...@gmail.comwrote: On May 4, 2014, at 7:45, Rik Cabanier caban...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey m...@eligrey.com wrote: The proposal

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Eli Grey
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: or you have to examine permissions that the application is requesting, and explicitly grant it the right to run on your machine I am not aware of this in any platforms. Can you provide one example of a platform that requests an

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com writes: Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator that reports the number of cores [2]. As far as I can tell, this functionality exists in every other platform (including iOS and Android). Some of the use cases for this feature

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 4 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: The world of computing has changed since 2009. At that time, the iPhone 3G had just been released and Apple hadn't even released the first iPad. The needs of the web as a platform have changed because now the web faces stiff competition from other

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Sun, 4 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: The world of computing has changed since 2009. At that time, the iPhone 3G had just been released and Apple hadn't even released the first iPad. The needs of the web as a platform