Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 6:56:48 AM UTC-7, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > If you're addicted to cleartrext, the future is going to be hard for you... Only because people like you insist on trying to push it across-the-board, rather than let webmasters make their own decisions. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 2:51:32 PM UTC-7, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > Candidly, and not because I still run such a site, I've always found > Gopher to be a better fit for resource-constrained computing. The > Commodore 128 sitting next to me does very well for that because the > protocol and menu parsing conventions are incredibly trivial. Certainly true on a "how well can it keep up?" level, but unfortunately precious few sites support Gopher these days, so while it may be a better fit it offers vastly more constricted access to online resources. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP
On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 1:43:25 PM UTC-7, byu...@gmail.com wrote: > Let 'em do this. When Mozilla and Google drop HTTP support, then it'll be > open season for someone to fork/make a new browser with HTTP support, and > gain an instant 30% market share. Or, more likely, it'll be a chance for Microsoft and Apple to laugh all the way to the bank. Because seriously, what else would you expect to happen when the makers of a web browser announce that, starting in X months, they'll be phasing out compatibility with the vast majority of existing websites? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP
Great, peachy, more authoritarian dictation of end-user behavior by the Elite is just what the Internet needs right now. And hey, screw anybody trying to use legacy systems for anything, right? Right! ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
