[whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to the current web

[Kristof Zelechovski]

If a user in America watches a media stream hosted in America but embedded
on a blog page hosted in Europe, the media stream would have to cross the
ocean twice.  This is not a trifle.
Chris

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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Elliotte Rusty Harold
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to
the current web

Ozob the Great wrote:

> The bandwidth cost of hosting video makes this option unworkable for 
> some blogs.

And yet someone's hosting that bandwidth today. This need not involve 
any net increase in bandwidth. It would just involve a rejiggering of 
hosting models.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu