On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM, David Levin <le...@google.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <a...@webkit.org> wrote: >> >> On 09.04.2009, at 22:38, Aaron Boodman wrote: >> >>> The local scheme feature is actually more powerful than just XHR >> >> If you only need extensions to do XHR, why not just make them use >> cross-origin XHR? That way, the extension won't even need to declare the >> origins it's going to access - all checks will be server-side, as with >> normal cross-origin XHR. > > I think the idea is that a user could install an extension and the user > could trust the extension to do the cross-origin xhr (without the server for > the x-origin doing anything special). > For example, I used to have the book burro FF extension > (http://www.bookburro.org/) which displayed prices for books from several > book stores when you visit another online book store.
Exactly. Sorry for not making this clear in the original mail. - a _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
