Re: Reminder: RfC: Last Call Working Draft of Web Workers; deadline April 21 from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-04-21 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:27:14 -0400
To: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <4DAF9602.9090707@mit.edu>

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 third-party cookies; I 
believe there are proposals to apply those to localStorage and the like 
as well.

> We already know that you can fingerprint a larger
> percentage of users

Which is why some UA vendors are actively trying to reduce the 
fingerprintable bits of their UAs that they expose to page JS.

In other words, these are problems we're trying to solve.  Adding to the 
list of problems seems counterproductive here.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:27:42 UTC