Re: Request for Reviewers: Section 7.4 of Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines; deadline Sep 24

2009-09-18 Thread Adam Barth
Comments below. > Web user agents MUST prevent web content from obscuring, hiding, or disabling > security user interfaces. This is impossible in a multi-window web user agent in an overlapping window manager (e.g., every major browser on every major general-purpose operating system). > Web use

Re: fyi: Strict Transport Security specification

2009-09-18 Thread Adam Barth
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > I wonder for example if the client when receiving a > Strict-Transport-Security header should make a request to the root url > of the same origin to verify that the server indeed wants to opt in to > STS. That's a good idea. Do you think w

Progress Events - Credits Edits

2009-09-18 Thread Garrett Smith
In looking at the credits, I noticed all of: Bjoern Hoehrmann, Björn Hoehrmann, Björn Höhrmann, Bjoern H�hrmann I am not sure if there are two similar "BH", as "Björn" and "Bjoern". Entities for the characters should be used. I also see my name on there, though misspelled. Garrett

Re: fyi: Strict Transport Security specification

2009-09-18 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM, =JeffH wrote: > We are interested in bringing this work to W3C WebApps Working Group as a > Recommendation-track specification. We are willing to license it under W3C > terms, we understand that it may change due to implementer or public > feedback, > and that shou

fyi: Strict Transport Security specification

2009-09-18 Thread =JeffH
Hi, We wish to bring the following draft specification to your attention.. Strict Transport Security (STS) It specifies a refined approach to that described by Jackson and Bart

Re: Request to publish WebSimpleDatabase as FPWD

2009-09-18 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:47 PM, ext Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: This is a request to publish the WebSimpleDatabase draft as FPWD. Please let me know if you need anything from me. The draft can be accessed from http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebSimpl

Re: Seeking Agenda Topics for WebApps' API meeting November 2-3

2009-09-18 Thread Arthur Barstow
On Sep 18, 2009, at 6:39 AM, ext Robin Berjon wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:19 , Arthur Barstow wrote: 1. Please indicate those API specs you want to discuss at this f2f meeting and a brief list of the relevant topic(s). I'd like for Arun and DAP (and anyone interested) to have a chat about w

Re: Request to publish WebSimpleDatabase as FPWD

2009-09-18 Thread Robin Berjon
On Sep 18, 2009, at 13:20 , Arthur Barstow wrote: While that CfC is ongoing, I'd like us to consider an alternative title, something that isn't quite so vague e.g. what does Simple mean in this context? Would WebDBM fly, or am I starting to show my age? -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/

CfC: to publish the FPWD of the Web Simple Database API spec; deadline 25 September

2009-09-18 Thread Arthur Barstow
This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to publish the First Public Working Draft (FPWD) of the Web Simple Database API spec: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebSimpleDatabase/ As with all of our CfCs, positive response is preferred and encouraged and silence will be assumed to be assent. The dea

Re: Request to publish WebSimpleDatabase as FPWD

2009-09-18 Thread Arthur Barstow
On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:47 PM, ext Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: This is a request to publish the WebSimpleDatabase draft as FPWD. Please let me know if you need anything from me. The draft can be accessed from http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/ WebSimpleDatabase/ I will start a CfC for a FPWD of this

Re: HTML extension for system idle detection.

2009-09-18 Thread Robin Berjon
On Sep 17, 2009, at 23:13 , Jeremy Orlow wrote: I think there is some merit to Jonas and Frederick's comments. We are leaking more information (but not a lot more) about a users habits than we did before. I haven't responded to them yet because I don't have a good answer. :-) I think th

Re: Request to publish WebSimpleDatabase as FPWD

2009-09-18 Thread Robin Berjon
On Sep 18, 2009, at 01:47 , Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: This is a request to publish the WebSimpleDatabase draft as FPWD. Please let me know if you need anything from me. +1 -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/

Re: Seeking Agenda Topics for WebApps' API meeting November 2-3

2009-09-18 Thread Robin Berjon
On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:19 , Arthur Barstow wrote: 1. Please indicate those API specs you want to discuss at this f2f meeting and a brief list of the relevant topic(s). I'd like for Arun and DAP (and anyone interested) to have a chat about where to take the File API, and especially how it rel