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Pretty cool. There's been a push to make HTML run everywhere, but this proves you can make X run on HTML. Maybe someday we'll code apps in Objective-C/Java that run in the browser, all inside a canvas.
Please make it easier. More simple.
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One solution is for the browser to provide a "anonymized" bitmap picture, e.g. setting the links to default colors. I don't know how feasible that is. It would require a new rendering of the page, at least.
That's not a solution for the general problem of getPixel + iframes though. Here, I'll give a simple example. Let's say there's a site that uses cookies to track logins. For example, hacker news. Now, hacker news does have the X-Frame-Option Deny, but let's assume it doesn't. So to figure out my hacker news username, all you have to do now is create an iframe with hacker news, and then getPixel on the area of the fra…
Pretty cool. There's been a push to make HTML run everywhere, but this proves you can make X run on HTML. Maybe someday we'll code apps in Objective-C/Java that run in the browser, all inside a canvas.
That would be a sad day. Layers upon layers of complexity, abstraction, technologies, etc. Please make it easier. More simple.
You know all those malware issues regarding unsigned or compromised executables? Not a problem in the wonderful world where programs are incapable of acting overly malicious. There're specs like webgl and webcl that lets you take the scary topic of graphics programming, which is communication to an external piece of hardware, and make that as safe as loading some javascript to sort a table by dollar value.
Anyway to get this to run in node with the output going to say Cairo? It'd be a fun little project to see if you could build a simple but working browser in nothing but JS.
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Because competition in the browser market is vital to keep the web platform progressing and to prevent a single party from controlling web standards. Do you remember the dark ages when IE ruled the web and things like HTML5, canvas, webgl, etc... couldn't happen?
I agree on principle. Many of us still have emotional baggage from the days of 95% IE market share, where the web really, REALLY sucked. But nowadays, I see it as, multiple companies have a vested financial interest (including MS with their new leadership) to ensure that browsers are very powerful. Even Apple, with iOS 8 has enabled 3rd party devs to have a full speed browser now with a JIT'd JS engine. They are simp…
FWIW, I said it and did it.
I didn't like Safari, and I couldn't change the default browser to anything better. Even worse, most 3rd party apps used their own utter-crap in-app browsers instead.
So I switched to Android where I have freedom to set my preferred default browser, and 3rd party apps actually respect that.
I do agree with the rest of your comment — these days you can't have a platform without a great browser.
Neat. Getting some good use out of HTML2Canvas as well. But always wondering why there is no way to get a bitmap from screen... something like window.getPixels(x, y, width, height).
There are privacy and security concerns to address. Similar to this situation: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-co...
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One solution is for the browser to provide a "anonymized" bitmap picture, e.g. setting the links to default colors. I don't know how feasible that is. It would require a new rendering of the page, at least.
That's not a solution for the general problem of getPixel + iframes though. Here, I'll give a simple example. Let's say there's a site that uses cookies to track logins. For example, hacker news. Now, hacker news does have the X-Frame-Option Deny, but let's assume it doesn't. So to figure out my hacker news username, all you have to do now is create an iframe with hacker news, and then getPixel on the area of the fra…
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What exactly are iOS users missing in Safari, in your opinion, that they would get from Firefox? I can see that Chrome has some cool sync features if you're into that sort of thing. But it still uses WebKit. And from what I've observed, people seem happy with the "Chrome" app in the app store, even though it uses a handicapped renderer. (Although in iOS 8, it won't be handicapped anymore, and will be as powerful as n…
The funny thing is that the "RAWR NO SAFARI, ONLY CHROME!" people don't seem to realize that both are WebKit at the core. Sure, some features are in Chrome first, but that's only because Apple is very cautious when releasing the new features to the general public.
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There are privacy and security concerns to address. Similar to this situation: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-co...
Hmm, if I can get all underlying DOM, including CSS, what is the difference except massive convenience? I could imagine iframes of other origins to be blank, but that would be it, I think?
Getting errors on chrome 35.0.1916.153 on Linux Mint. 56 on line 34 in webkit.api.js Uncaught # on line 15633 in webkit.bin.js
If you put in any HTML that requires webkit to go out to hte network it crashes since network requests are disabled in the demo.