> On 19 Nov 2013, at 11:28 am, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Marcos Caceres <mcace...@mozilla.com> wrote: >>> On Monday, November 18, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> Bookmarking. And in particular bookmarking to home screen should not >>> have dramatically different security properties from just bookmarking. >>> They ought to be identical (and indeed, have negligible effect). >> >> Thanks for clarifying. I think I agree with this, but I’m currently >> investigating what the implications are. I have a *very early* draft of this >> research, and the good thing is that at least IE on Windows 8, Firefox for >> Android, and Chrome for Android tend to agree with you (will push that part >> of the research to the document soon). > > So the differences I found that are not desirable are: > > * If I'm logged into Facebook and then open a hosted app that Facebook > session is distinct. That's not the case in a browser today. I can see > us adding a feature that allows Facebook to opt out of sharing its > session with other sites, but by default I think we want the existing > model. (And definitely not change it around based on a bookmark.) > > * When I click a link "the browser" opens. If the browser is core to > the OS everything in it should have a URL (whether visible or not, > that's an implementation detail) and navigation should happen > seamlessly between them. I don't think we need any behavioral > difference here between something that is bookmarked and something > that is not. Of course apps can opt in to having their links open in a > new window, using target=_blank.
Great stuff! I'll make sure the above is captured as requirements (and ultimately ends up in the spec). > > I think part of the disconnect might be that the web is an actual OS > would be fundamentally different from what we have today. You cannot > really compare it with an OS that has a browser or an apps market > (such as Mac OS X and Firefox OS). The OS is the browser and the apps > market is the web. Be great if you could expand this out in a blog post or something. We have a lot of work to do to shift people to this line of thinking (which I also agree with). I can then, with your permission, add it to the doc I'm working on. If you think of anything else, please let me know! > > > -- > http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
