Re: [whatwg] Problem with keygen in html 5

2009-04-08 Thread Stefan Santesson
Trying again as subscriber the list. Sorry if this gets double posted. On 4/8/09 10:49 AM, Stefan Santesson ste...@aaa-sec.com wrote: Hi, My name is Stefan Santesson and I¹m co-chair of the PKIX working group in the IETF. The PKIX work group is responsible for the PKI related standards

Re: [whatwg] Private browsing vs. Storage and Databases

2009-04-08 Thread Aryeh Gregor
2009/4/7 Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc: I do agree that the difference is subtle. But I do think there is a general perception that cookies are more volatile than localStorage. In fact, I think localStorage was invented partially because of this. In what way is localStorage less volatile?

Re: [whatwg] Canvas Shadows - Unnecessary Barrier to Entry - Summary

2009-04-08 Thread Charles Pritchard
Summarizing my proposal and responses: Against Shadows: The HTML Canvas Shadow specification requires implementors to create a procedural shader hook. This added complexity is a significant cost in time, and brings very little reward. Further, the functionality can be implemented by the user,

Re: [whatwg] Canvas - toTempURL - A dangerous proposal - Summary

2009-04-08 Thread Charles Pritchard
Summarizing my proposal and responses: A new function - toTempURL: Legacy clients may have terrible support for extensibility. With some HTML consumers, base 64 encoded images are not usable in the global scope. To get around this, we proposed using toTempURL(), to save an image to the local

Re: [whatwg] Private browsing vs. Storage and Databases

2009-04-08 Thread Bil Corry
Aryeh Gregor wrote on 4/8/2009 12:23 PM: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Bil Corry b...@corry.biz wrote: Is there really a use case for wanting to show up at a site as yourself, but not have any footprint of the visit saved locally? Yes. The commonly-cited use-case is buying a present for