[Bug 15592] Feature Request: A javax.smartcardio alternative

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15592

--- Comment #3 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> 2012-01-19 07:42:10 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> You plug a smart card reader into your tablet. Android and iOS are perfectly
> capable of using add-on hardware.

Users are just going to love purchasing and lugging around dongles that
elegantly hang from their tablets.

> If I may assume that what you are saying is that most non-Java 6 environments
> don't have smartcard readers anyway: Java is sometimes not installed on
> desktops either. 

My point is that hardware tokens are bad for the Web, because if they became
widespread, they'd limit the possibilities of new classes of browsing devices
to break into the market.

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Received on Thursday, 19 January 2012 07:42:13 UTC