Re: ACTION-43: added user-agent-managed site-specific exception proposal to Editor's Draft from David Singer on 2012-01-19 (public-tracking@w3.org from January 2012)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:37:25 -0800
To: Nicholas Doty <npdoty@w3.org>
Cc: Sid Stamm <sid@mozilla.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Shane Wiley <wileys@yahoo-inc.com>, "VINCENT (VINCENT) TOUBIANA" <Vincent.Toubiana@alcatel-lucent.com>, "public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)" <public-tracking@w3.org>
Message-id: <EB9272E4-BA3A-4538-9C3F-141B65697A1C@apple.com>

On Jan 6, 2012, at 17:56 , Nicholas Doty wrote:
> 
> What would you suggest specifically to replace this text? One possibility:
> "If a user has pre-configured the user agent to accept or reject these permissions, the user agent SHOULD respond with that preference. If no pre-configured preference exists, the user agent MUST provide a user interface prompting the user to choose whether to provide site-specific permissions for the requested origins."

I think we're designing a protocol between the UA and the server, and what that protocol means and its requirements.  UA to user interactions are out of the scope of a MUST statement, I think.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:37:58 UTC