Re: CHAPI and Brave compatibility

Cool! Looking forward to seeing the progress.

Brian

On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 10:33 AM Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

>
> On 4/8/22 12:49 PM, Brian Richter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a known timeline for when CHAPI will work with the Brave
> > browser? As a Brave user it’s not great that I would have to recommend
> >  a browser I myself try to avoid.
>
> This is actually being worked on right now. I don't yet have a clear
> timeline for a production release, but we should have something working
> internally for testing in a couple of weeks.
>
> >
> > What is the API that Brave is missing? Is it something that will come
> > with time or is it a design decision?
>
> Brave only has partitioned, ephemeral 3rd party cookie storage -- and it
> does not expose the Storage Access API. This makes it impossible to work
> with the integrated iframe approach that CHAPI uses. We're implementing
> a popup window flow (similar to how "OAuth/OIDC/Login with..." works on
> sites like twitter.com) to address this.
>
>
> --
> Dave Longley
> CTO
> Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>