- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:01:39 -0700
- To: "public-tracking@w3.org WG" <public-tracking@w3.org>
I have added the following to the TPE spec to serve as temporary content for the section on Plug-in APIs. ....Roy Index: tracking-dnt.html =================================================================== RCS file: /w3ccvs/WWW/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-dnt.html,v retrieving revision 1.32 retrieving revision 1.33 diff -u -r1.32 -r1.33 --- tracking-dnt.html 1 Nov 2011 01:10:41 -0000 1.32 +++ tracking-dnt.html 1 Nov 2011 04:58:17 -0000 1.33 @@ -381,7 +381,17 @@ <section id='plug-ins'> <h3>Plug-In APIs</h3> - <p>TBD.<p> + <p> + User agents often include user-installable component parts, + commonly known as <dfn>plug-ins</dfn> or + <dfn>browser extensions</dfn>, that are capable of making their own + network requests. From the user's perspective, these components + are considered part of the user agent and thus ought to respect the + user's configuration of a tracking preference. However, plug-ins + do not normally have read access to the browser configuration. + Therefore, we will define here various mechanisms for communicating + the DNT preference via common plug-in APIs. + </p> </section> </section>
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