On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:53 -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: > > For some reason WebKit thinks it should do the pre-resolution when the > > mouse is moved on top of the blank area of the page indeed. > > It turns out that this bug was already reported OVER A YEAR AGO: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c3
That's not a bug report, that's a comment in the middle of an unrelated bug report. If you feel like filing a real bug report about this, please do =). > A fix was proposed over six months ago: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c5 And there was no agreement that fix should be made, as you can see in the comments that come after that. > I don't understand why this fix hasn't been applied upstream. Even if > you don't think this behaviour is a security problem, it's a big waste > of CPU and network resources to issue a completely useless external DNS > query for every mouse movement event -- that is, for every few pixels > that the pointer moves. That is a ridiculously stupid thing to do. I agree, a fix needs to be done indeed. > Gustavo, I draw your attention particularly to the following comments: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c14 > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c19 Attention drawn. What exactly do you want me to see in those comments? See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <k...@debian.org> Debian
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