Re: google proposing to deprecate KEYGEN

On 2015-08-04 15:49, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 8/4/15 3:18 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>> On 2015-08-04 08:01, Henry Story wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 30 Jul 2015, at 16:44, Anders Rundgren
>>>> <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2015-07-30 16:32, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>>> :(
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/pAUG2VQ6xfQ/FKX63BwOIwAJ
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since none of the big users of client-side PKI have ever bothered
>>>> with this crap
>>>> it won't be missed.   This signifies the (expected) end of WebID-TLS
>>>> as well.
>>>
>>> Not quite, as it depends on what happens in the TLS 3.0 group. But
>>> WebID-TLS can still
>>> work very well for server to server communication. It seems that in
>>> any case that is what
>>> is going to have to happen, as browser vendors seem to have lost
>>> their marbles somewhere
>>> along the way from Netscape to here.
>>
>> The browser folks have lost the war against "Apps".  They don't
>> realize (or acknowledge) the
>> obvious either: By bridging the Web and App worlds you could COMBINE
>> the power of BOTH worlds.
>>
>> The Web advocates are rather betting on that Apps is a fad, completely
>> ignoring the fact
>> that Google, Apple, and Microsoft are putting giant resources into
>> their App platforms.
> Anders,
>
> The World Wide Web is Linked Data collective crafted using Open
> Standards (URIs, HTTP, HTML, RDF Language [retrospectively]) .
>
> A Browser is an App.

For some people including myself a Browser is more like an Operating System.

Unlike traditional OSes, a Browser is designed to execute transiently downloaded
code (i.e. Apps) from arbitrary sites on the Internet.  This ability is both a
blessing and a curse.  We are currently discussing the "curse" side of the coin.

Anders

> Same applies to all mobile apps.
>
> An application reads, manipulates, and writes data.
>
> It's about the Data and how its web-like form that matters.
>
> The Web-like form of data is a characteristic of structured data
> representation that leverages the duality of HTTP URIs (as Entity Names
> that resolve to Entity Description Documents).
>
> Note:
> HTML is a Language (signs, syntax, semantics), but it has fixed notation
> (HTML tags) and serialization format (text/html).
> RDF is an Abstract Language (signs, syntax, semantics) that doesn't have
> a fixed notation or serialization format.
>
> The only problem with RDF is that the term "RDF" is used too generically
> which propagates nothing but confusion.
>
> Links:
>
> [1]
> http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2015/07/situation-analysis-never-day-goes-by.html
> -- Data & Semantics
> [2] http://www.slideshare.net/kidehen/understanding-29894555 --
> Understanding Data
>

Received on Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:53:24 UTC