Re: [manifest] Fetching restriction, Re: [manifest] Update and call for review

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:
> On May 27, 2014 at 3:31:15 PM, Ben Francis (bfrancis@mozilla.com) wrote:
>> One risk of allowing cross-origin manifests might be that these
>> "tailored app experiences" are perceived by the actual app author
>> and/or end users as a "fake app" masquerading as the real thing.
>> In the longer term when additional features are added to the manifest
>> there could be additional risks.
>>
>> That is why I'm interested in feedback on whether this is a desirable
>> feature or not.
>
> That's a very good summary of both the use case and the problems. I'm also interested in hearing feedback. As Ben makes clear, "same-origin" basically kills installations from custom stores.

Wait what? Man-in-the-middling someone's content is not a use case.


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Received on Wednesday, 28 May 2014 08:38:07 UTC