Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread João Eiras
On Tue, 06 May 2014 01:29:47 +0200, Kenneth Russell 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 wrote: I have a list of example use cases at http://wiki.whatwg.

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 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 number

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Joe Gregorio
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM, João Eiras 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 information that ca

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Joe Gregorio wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM, João Eiras 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, rightl

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 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: > > https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniquene

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 y

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-06 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Adam Barth 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

[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 r

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Event.creationTime

2014-05-06 Thread Adam Barth
Can we just change timeStamp to be a DOMHighResTimeStamp rather than introducing a redundant property? Adam On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Brian Birtles wrote: > Hi, > > Gecko's implementation of Event.timeStamp does not conform to the spec[1] > since it reports the number of milliseconds s

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Event.creationTime

2014-05-06 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 5/7/14, 1:51 AM, Brian Birtles wrote: This time is measured from navigationStart It's probably better to say that it's measured from the same 0 point as performance.now(), since there is no navigationStart in workers but there are events there. -Boris

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Event.creationTime

2014-05-06 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2014-05-06 23:00 -0700, Adam Barth wrote: > Can we just change timeStamp to be a DOMHighResTimeStamp rather than > introducing a redundant property? I'd certainly be happy to see such a change; I argued that Event.timeStamp be based on a monotonic clock previously, in: http://lists.w3.o

Re: [whatwg] HTML spec incorrectly suggests that can have its rendering changed with CSS

2014-05-06 Thread L. David Baron
[ resending this message, originally dated "Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:42:10 -0700", since I just noticed it didn't make it through to the list due to the list's content-type filters rejecting signed messages ] On Tuesday 2014-04-29 17:55 +, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Tab A