4 ms·
I think the idea there is that there would be lazy-loaded content from another site that would only load when someone scrolled far enough to see the highlighted
by cmg 7y ago
I think the idea there is that there would be lazy-loaded content from another site that would only load when someone scrolled far enough to see the highlighted word, which will automatically happen with this feature.
The title of the Forbes article is too hyperbolic for my tastes and while this could be a security concern in very specific situations it's being overblown.
- phillipseamore 7y agoI think that would need to be a designed attack, not something that would apply to 99% of websites. The only legitimate resource (that could be used as a canary) being loaded far down a page would be an image (and that kind of requires it to be lazy loading as well).
- merrywhether 7y agoLatest Chrome defers out-of-viewport images on its own, or at least tries to.