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submitted 1 year ago by LittlePumpkin@feddit.de to c/internetisbeautiful@feddit.de

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Great showcase on how much data your browser is unnecessarily bleeding to every website out there that wants it.

Genuine, non-rhetorical questions: does anyone know why the hell your browser needs to tell the site

where your pointer is, instead of telling it which elements you clicked and calling a day?
if the window is active/inactive?
the relative position of the window in your screen, instead of just its approximate size?

[–] Wander@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hover effects, you often want to respond to the user hoving their mouse somewhere, for instance showing a tooltip.
Battery/network saving, a site can pause animations or reduce update requests when the window is inactive.
I cant really think of a good use for this one these days, it was something browsers had in the 90s (not just readonly, websites could move your browser window where they wanted for a while). Maybe its kept for backwards compatibility.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That explains it. Thank you and @iamkindasomeone@feddit.de for the replies!

[–] iamkindasomeone@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Some ideas:

for custom elements and general interaction, e.g., custom drag and drop or sliders
for instance YouTube does this whether to auto play videos or to keep them muted
i dont know, maybe for layouting things