[whatwg] Security risks of persistent background content (Re:Installed Apps)

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Michael Kozakewich <
mkozakewich at icosidodecahedron.com> wrote:

>
> How many applications do we expect any one user to have open? I would
> imagine one would do fine on the Taskbar or in the Notification Area, like
> other programs, but a manager would be good if a user had a great deal of
> applications running at once.
>

The Windows notification area isn't obtrusive enough for my security comfort
(even if you exclude the auto-icon-hiding stuff it does, which I don't
really understand). Taskbar/Dock is OK. A dedicated window is probably
better.

Whether you quit the main browser or not, the browser process would have to
> remain loaded, correct? Otherwise, it would be impossible to render pages.
>

Some browser process would have to remain loaded, yes, but that's true for
any approach that lets pages run persistently with Web APIs.

Rob
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