- When asked to
report element timing given a {{Document}} |doc|, a timestamp |now|, an [=ordered set=] of [=pending image records=] |paintedImages|, and an [=ordered set=] of [=/elements=] |paintedTextNodes|, perform the following steps:
+ When asked to
report element timing given a {{Document}} |doc|, a [/=paint timing info=] |paintTimingInfo|, an [=ordered set=] of [=pending image records=] |paintedImages|, and an [=ordered set=] of [=/elements=] |paintedTextNodes|, perform the following steps:
1. For each |record| in |paintedImages|:
- 1. Run the
report image element timing algorithm passing in |record|, |now|, and |doc|.
+ 1. Run the
report image element timing algorithm passing in |record|, |paintTimingInfo|, and |doc|.
1. For each {{Element}} |element| in |paintedTextNodes|:
- 1. Run the
report text element timing given |element|, |now|, and |doc|.
+ 1. Run the
report text element timing given |element|, |paintTimingInfo|, and |doc|.
- When asked to
report image element timing given a [=pending image record=] |record|, a DOMHighResTimestamp |renderTime| and a {{Document}} |document|, perform the following steps:
+ When asked to
report image element timing given a [=pending image record=] |record|, a [=/paint timing info=] |paintTimingInfo| and a {{Document}} |document|, perform the following steps:
1. If |record|'s [=pending image record/element=]'s "
elementtiming" content attribute is absent, then abort these steps.
1. Let |intersectionRect| be the value returned by the
intersection rect algorithm using |record|'s [=pending image record/element=] as the target and viewport as the root.
- 1. Create and initialize a {{PerformanceElementTiming}} object |entry| with |document|'s [=relevant realm=].
+ 1. Create and initialize a {{PerformanceElementTiming}} object |entry| with |document|'s [=relevant realm=], whose [=PaintTimingMixin/paint timing info=] is |paintTimingInfo|.
1. Initialize |entry|'s
request to |record|'s [=pending image record/request=].
1. Initialize |entry|'s
element to |record|'s [=pending image record/element=].
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{PerformanceEntry/name}} to the {{DOMString}} "image-paint".
- 1. Initialize |entry|'s {{renderTime}} to |renderTime|.
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{loadTime}} to |record|'s [=pending image record/loadTime=].
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{intersectionRect}} to |intersectionRect|.
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{identifier}} to |record|'s [=pending image record/element=]'s "
elementtiming" content attribute.
@@ -234,17 +238,16 @@ Report Text Element Timing {#sec-report-text}
--------------------------------------------------------
- When asked to
report text element timing given an {{Element}} |element|, a DOMHighResTimestamp |renderTime| and a {{Document}} |document|, perform the following steps:
+ When asked to
report text element timing given an {{Element}} |element|, a [=/paint timing info=] |paintTimingInfo| and a {{Document}} |document|, perform the following steps:
1. If |element|'s "
elementtiming" content attribute is absent, then abort these steps.
1. Let |intersectionRect| be an empty rectangle.
1. For each {{Text}}
node |text| in |element|'s
set of owned text nodes:
1. Augment |intersectionRect| to be smallest rectangle containing the border box of |text| and |intersectionRect|.
1. Intersect |intersectionRect| with the visual viewport.
- 1. Create and initialize a {{PerformanceElementTiming}} object |entry| with |document|'s [=relevant realm=].
+ 1. Create and initialize a {{PerformanceElementTiming}} object |entry| with |document|'s [=relevant realm=], whose [=PaintTimingMixin/paint timing info=] is |paintTimingInfo|.
1. Initialize |entry|'s
element to |element|.
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{PerformanceEntry/name}} to the {{DOMString}} "text-paint".
- 1. Initialize |entry|'s {{renderTime}} to |renderTime|.
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{loadTime}} to 0.
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{intersectionRect}} to |intersectionRect|.
1. Initialize |entry|'s {{identifier}} to |element|'s "
elementtiming" content attribute.
@@ -257,7 +260,7 @@ Security & privacy considerations {#sec-security}
===============================================
This API exposes some information about cross-origin images.
-In particular, images that do not pass the
timing allow check still have their resource load time exposed, which could be a source of privacy concerns.
+In particular, images have their resource load time exposed, which could be a source of privacy concerns.
However, this is considered to not add new attacks to the web platform because the ResourceTiming API exposes a similar timestamp already.
In addition, the onload handler exposes load timing when it is available, and the resource load time is a close proxy to this.
@@ -265,12 +268,10 @@ The
current high resolution time computed at the beginning of the onload
We choose to expose the {{loadTime}} because it is very easy to obtain even without an onload handler.
In addition, we believe any fix to remove the leak provided by image onload handlers or ResourceTiming could also fix the leak provided by this API.
-The {{renderTime}} (display timestamp) can also be polyfilled via the PaintTiming API.
-To do this, add an iframe that contains trivial content on the onload handler of the target image or text content.
-Then, query the first paint of that iframe to obtain the rendering timestamp of the content.
-This is quite inefficient and the polyfill itself might affect the timing obtained.
-Due to the difficulty in obtaining this information today, we choose not to expose the display timestamp for images that fail the
timing allow check.
-For clarity, here is a code snippet using the PaintTiming API:
+The {{renderTime}} (display timestamp) is indeed newly exposed information. Implementations are advised to coarsen that timestamp further,
+o a 4 milliseconds resolution at least, to avoid exposing differences in decoding time between cross-origin images. Note that other checks,
+such as `Timing-Allow-Origin`, does not work here due to same-origin and cross-origin images being rendered at the same time.
+Exposing a coarse {{renderTime}} is anyway not a substantial attack vector, given that image [=natural size=] and loading time are exposed in other ways.
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// In the attacker frame.
@@ -297,8 +298,6 @@ The other nontrivial parameter being exposed here is the {{intersectionRect}}.
This can already be polyfilled, for example using {{IntersectionObserver}}.
The polyfill process would be similar: add an {{IntersectionObserver}} on the onload handler of the target image or text content.
This solution is inefficient because it requires registering the observer once the content has loaded, but it should still provide the same level of accuracy.
-For images, we compute the {{intersectionRect}} once the image has loaded if it does not pass the <a>timing allow check</a>.
-Computing it at this point in time allows exposing the entry at that time.
If we were to compute the rect only until the image is fully displayed, we'd only be able to expose the entry after that time.
If we do not want to expose the rendering timetamp of an image, it's preferable to dispatch the entry to the {{PerformanceObserver}} right away.
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