Re: <keygen> element (was RE: Implementor feedback on new elements in HTML5)

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jonas Sicking<jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> I can fully understand microsoft being unwilling to implement this. I
> think the reason it's in the spec isn't really because anyone likes
> it, but rather because it's a feature a new webbrowser would need to
> implement in order to be "compatible with the web".
>
> However, I wonder if implementing <keygen> would actually help a
> newcomer. The problem is that I think this is one area where pages do
> so much browser detection that it's unlikely that any newcomer will
> work out of the box.

Then perhaps UAs should be allowed to simply ignore <keygen>?

Received on Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:18:28 UTC