On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > * "Permissions API" this has been tried several times before. Given > > that there's hardly any involvement from UX in standards, it's not > > clear that this is a good idea. See also > > > > > http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/06/permissions-for-web-applications_30.html > > > > I share this reservation. I also think that this could undermine the work > that has been done with respect to user consent in other areas. > Specifically the Media Capture task force and the Geolocation working > group. I'd expect statements in the charter regarding liaison with > affected groups at a minimum, if not actual prior consultation (and I've > seen no evidence of that). Indeed: more generally, there's a certain flavor in this charter of setting up WebAppSec as the decider for how security features should be implemented in other W3C WGs (for instance, Powerful Features). I don't think that that's very helpful or really matches WebAppSec's historical role. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
