Re: Content Transformatnion Guidelines: Last Call Working Draft ( LC-2085) ( LC-2268 LC-2267)

I think all these were comments I made in my personal capacity.  I'm happy with the disposition of these.

Thanks, Francois,
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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>







On 11 Feb 2010, at 23:32, fd@w3.org wrote:

> 
> Dear Thomas Roessler ,
> 
> The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has reviewed the comments you
> sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Guidelines for Web
> Content Transformation Proxies 1.0 published on 6 Oct 2009. Thank you for
> having taken the time to review the document and to send us comments!
> 
> The Working Group's response to your comment is included below, and has
> been implemented in the new version of the document available at:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ct-guidelines-20100211/.
> 
> Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
> public-bpwg-comments@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 11 March
> 2010. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
> solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If such a
> consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a
> formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the
> transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
> Track.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> For the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group,
> Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
> François Daoust
> W3C Staff Contacts
> 
> 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/98E37A5A-6A89-4185-A59A-5AB8393FB7C8@w3.org
> 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ct-guidelines-20091006/
> 
> 
> =====
> 
> Your comment on 4.2.9 Proxy Decision to Transform:
>> As a final comment, in the check list at the top of section 4.9.2, the 
>> 
>> "other factors" laudably include:
>> 
>>> "the user agent has features (such as linearization or zoom) that  
>>> allow it to present the content unaltered;"
>> 
>> Given that content transformation proxies at times depend on the  
>> network that is used to access a resource, it might also be worthwhile 
>> 
>> calling out the use of a "desktop" browser over a mobile network as a 
>> 
>> case that proxies should take into account.
> 
> 
> Working Group Resolution (LC-2268):
> We agree and have updated the bullet point in section 4.2.9 to mention
> that use case.
> 
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> 
> Your comment on 4.2.9.2 Link Rewriting:
>> From a quick review, section 4.2.9.3 looks vastly improved.  I'll  
>> solicit the WSC WG's opinions on the changed version; speaking  
>> personally, I'm happy with the current text.
>> 
>> I would like to call out a specific point in 4.2.9.2:
>> 
>>> Proxies must preserve security between requests for domains that are 
>> 
>>> not same-origin in respect of cookies and scripts.
>> 
>> It is probably worthwhile to call out in non-normative security  
>> considerations what that actually means -- namely, fairly heavy  
>> rewriting of scripts along the lines of what CaJa does, and rewriting 
>> 
>> of cookies to emulate the behavior that a browser would otherwise show.
> 
> 
> Working Group Resolution (LC-2267):
> We take your point, but this document does not specify the internal
> operation of transforming proxies so we find it hard to think of anything
> useful to say.
> 
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> 
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 11 February 2010 22:54:51 UTC