Hi all,
Yes, discussions should sometimes result in progress. As such, I've updated
the list of webAPIs with their
corresponding discussions, and posted to final versions for discussions which
had run their course.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI (wiki formatting seems broken so the table has
Please reply-to dev-webapps.
There's been much discussion lately of the different types of applications and
so I figured this would be a good time to
summarize the current state of discussion. From a security perspective, there
are 3.5 types of applications. Confused
yet? Excellent!
==Types
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Name of API: Power Management APIs
Reference: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/PowerManagementAPI
Brief purpose of API: Allow apps to turn off or restart device and catch
on-wake events
General Use Cases: None
Inherent threats: Denial of serviceto
Sorry for not responding until now. Was away on vacation.
> Inherent threats: Privacy implication - signalling mulitple windows at
> exactly the same time could correlate user identities and compromise privacy
I think there's another threat, which is simply monitoring if the user
is active on t
