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Re: <keygen> element

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:44:37 +0000 (UTC)
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0909160044310.14605@hixie.dreamhostps.com>
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:43:09 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
> > I'd suggest there should be at least one DOM attribute or method that 
> > is missing or returns a different value when <keygen> encryption is 
> > not supported. One possibility is to make keytype return the empty 
> > string instead of "rsa" by default, if no algorithms are supported. 
> > I'm sure there are many other possibilities.
> 
> We could make keytype IDL attribute "limited to only known values" which 
> would do something similar to that. (Basically if the specified 
> algorithm is not supported it would return the empty string.)

Done.

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