[whatwg] Link Fingerprints (HTML version)

2008-03-21 Thread Gervase Markham
Some WHAT-WG participants may be aware of Link Fingerprints, which was a way to embed the hash of a file in a link to that file, thereby ensuring that the link user got only the exact file the link creator was referring to. http://www.foo.com/file.zip#!sha256:09F9... Implementing this idea

Re: [whatwg] Geolocation API Proposal

2008-03-21 Thread Shyam Habarakada
and do you send it to third party servers? should doubleclick be able to automatically target their ads based on precise location? If the container page/site is able to access location via any of these mechanisms, there is little to nothing that the user-agent can do to prent that site from

Re: [whatwg] Geolocation API Proposal

2008-03-21 Thread Shyam Habarakada
Perhaps you could do something similar with the HTTP mechanism, but I don't know how, exactly. Another issue with the HTTP headers approach is that it doesn't seem like a natural fit for offline-enabled web apps that want to use the location info offline. Right. I am not advocating the HTTP

Re: [whatwg] Geolocation API Proposal

2008-03-21 Thread Aaron Boodman
On 3/21/08, Shyam Habarakada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the container page/site is able to access location via any of these mechanisms, there is little to nothing that the user-agent can do to prent that site from forwarding the information to an ad provider. In other words, the privacy

[whatwg] NULL characters in manifests

2008-03-21 Thread Alexey Proskuryakov
The user agent must decode the bytestream corresponding with the manifest to be parsed, treating it as UTF-8. Bytes or sequences of bytes that are not valid UTF-8 sequences must be interpreted as a U +FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. All U+ NULL characters must be replaced by U+FFFD