[Bug 25985] WebCrypto should be inter-operable

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25985

--- Comment #23 from Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> ---
> And the user can do nothing but switch UAs.

While true:

1) Everyone agreed this was a terrible state of affairs.
2) There's a difference between "Use literally any other browser you've ever
   heard of" and "use a specific browser".
3) The UA you're presumably thinking of wasn't claiming to support WebGL.
4) It was clear to everyone that this was a temporary situation.

> A site that wishes to restrict it's users to "the blessed operating system and
> browser version" on it has plenty of other ways to do this. 

Sure.  What it looks like to me is that the current setup more or less _forces_
sites to do that.

Which, again, is why I keep asking for an example of how a well-authored site
that doesn't want to do this will use this API and how it will know to do that
correct thing.  That's where having some idea of what set of things one can
expect a conforming implementation to implement (again, not all of them, but at
least _some_ of them) seems like it could be useful.

> they know that every UA *COULD* implement a given algorithm

That's not actually obvious from the spec as it currently stands.  Again, right
now a UA that doesn't implement any algorithms at all is considered as
conformant as any other UA.

We agree that specifying what happens when a UA does implement an algorithm is
worthwhile.  That part is done; I'm not worrying about that part.  ;)

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Received on Thursday, 5 June 2014 17:18:38 UTC