[whatwg] Resource loading in browsing context-less Documents

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Fri Oct 5 08:54:30 PDT 2012


On 10/5/12 4:23 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> Note that you can append such an <img> to a different document later
> (e.g. the one that executes the script) so fetching it is probably
> smart.

It can also lead to privacy leaks and very upset web developers and 
performance problems...  So it's not quite clear cut.  ;)

-Boris




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