- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:41:25 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, public-html@w3.org
Hi Jonas, On Apr 28, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > For what it's worth. I don't see that we'd implement this function at > all in firefox. For a few reasons: > > 1. I don't want people to write text editors using canvas. They are > bound to get a lot of things resulting in worse user experience for > users. *Especially* for users that use AT. > 2. It's not worth the engineering time needed. Weeding through the > various platform APIs on which firefox runs to try to get at this > information is non-trivial. The time could be spent on features that > help users more. > 3. It's in fact actively harmful for users since it increases > fingerprintability. We're going through great pains to reduce > fingerprintability, adding features that go the other way is not > something we'd take lightly. > > So I'd prefer that the feature was just removed. If it isn't, and we > for some reason decide that we want to claim to implement this > function (such as it appearing in a high-profile test suite), we'd > likely just make it return 500ms. I wish this feedback had been given in the survey. No one made a "won't implement this" claim or an argument about fingerprintability. If you do want this aspect of the decision reconsidered, I suggest collecting any additional information you have and submitting a reopen request. Regards, Maciej
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