On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I don't see why the web platform is special here and we should trust >> > that >> > authors can do the right thing. >> >> I'm fairly sure people have already pointed this out to you. But the >> reason the web platform is different is that because we allow >> arbitrary application logic to run on the user's device without any >> user opt-in. >> >> I.e. the web is designed such that it is safe for a user to go to any >> website without having to consider the risks of doing so. >> >> This is why we for example don't allow websites to have arbitrary >> read/write access to the user's filesystem. Something that all the >> other platforms that you have pointed out do. >> >> Those platforms instead rely on that users make a security decision >> before allowing any code to run. This has both advantages (easier to >> design APIs for those platforms) and disadvantages (malware is pretty >> prevalent on for example Windows) > > I'm unsure what point you are trying to make. > This is not an API that exposes any more information than a user agent > sniffer can approximate. > It will just be more precise and less wasteful. For the high value system (= > lots of cores), we intentionally limited the number of cores to 8. This > number of cores is very common and most applications won't see much use > above 8 anyway.
I've already answered this in both this thread and on blink-dev. And I'm not the only one that have done so. I believe we are going in circles. As far as I can tell there is not a lot of agreement to ship this. At least not at this time. I'm happy to help working on the WorkerPool suggestion though. I believe that will give more value to developers anyway (not a strict superset I agree, but way easier to get right). / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
