Re: Clarity over direction of work on runtime and security model? from Marcos Caceres on 2013-09-17 (public-sysapps@w3.org from September 2013)

From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:36:07 +0100
To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
Cc: "public-sysapps@w3.org" <public-sysapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <6F796355B2E64DD1A2F006C1F7476CE6@marcosc.com>

On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Dave Raggett wrote:

> So am I correct in that we don't expect to have a standard covering the 
> permissions requested in app manifests? Won't this cause interop 
> problems for system applications across different run-times?
> 

I don't think it would, as this could be specified at the API level independently of the runtime spec. For example, some certified-level apps don't prompt at all, while privileged-levels ones do. This could also be user configurable.

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