On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, James Ide wrote: > > Attributes are flexible if they are named generically (e.g. just > params=""). But as soon as they are named dsaparams="" or ecparams="", > UAs are somewhat precluded from adding some new algorithm XYZ because of > the lack of an xyzparams="" attribute.
I don't understand. Why can't we use xyzparams="" if we introduce an XYZ algorithm? > In short, if it is likely that UAs will support more than just two or > three popular signature algorithms, it may be worthwhile to allow > authors to specify a name and parameters for any arbitrary algorithm. As we add algorithms, we would presumably add the attributes if they are needed. Note that right now a browser isn't intended to just add more algorithms willy nilly; the list is theoretically limited to what's in the spec. If we were to make the list open-ended, we could just as easily allow the attributes to be open-ended as well. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
