Browserball
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Browserball
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#3I remember this demo when Chrome first came out. I thought that was the coolest thing.
edit: I found the original site that I linked to this. Courtesy of archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20120214090814/http://blog.insicd...
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#4What's the reason for allowing web pages to get absolute screen coordinates?
This is a privacy leak. I have a 24" screen, and I don't keep the browser window maximized because it would be too big. I presume other people do to, and I'm pretty sure most have a preferred size and position.
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#5I think the thing I like most about this is how it's evidently very imperfect - the ball sometimes goes missing, the rules for what velocity it needs to bounce from one window to another seem hazy, etc - but none of that really matters: it's fun and cool to play about with for a minute or two, it doesn't at all take itself seriously, and you know that any real implementation of this sort of thing, if there were an actual need for it, would be implemented more robustly anyway.
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#7YouTube Demo:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XmH2QF92Jwo
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#8What's the reason for allowing web pages to get absolute screen coordinates? This is a privacy leak. I have a 24" screen, and I don't keep the browser window maximized because it would be too big. I presume other people do to, and I'm pretty sure most have a preferred size and position.
Right, never max out your window, it's a known data leak used to fingerprint users.
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#9What's the reason for allowing web pages to get absolute screen coordinates? This is a privacy leak. I have a 24" screen, and I don't keep the browser window maximized because it would be too big. I presume other people do to, and I'm pretty sure most have a preferred size and position.
How do you know the coordinates are absolute?
It seems like the child windows are 'special', perhaps the web page can obtain the relative coordinates of these child panels?
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#10What's the reason for allowing web pages to get absolute screen coordinates? This is a privacy leak. I have a 24" screen, and I don't keep the browser window maximized because it would be too big. I presume other people do to, and I'm pretty sure most have a preferred size and position.
Right, never max out your window, it's a known data leak used to fingerprint users.
I'd say that maximizing is more general then having a custom sized window. There are only so many resolutions in use (and I would guess 50%+ is either hd, full hd or qhd). Resizing your windows yield nearly unlimited options for browser sizes.