Re: DNT:0 and API

On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:51 , Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org> wrote:

> Mike, 
> 
> this is my plan since the Princeton workshop. That you invent it in 
> parallel means we can't be that wrong. It looks like we have still 
> some industry requiring that feature. (modulo my misunderstanding of 
> the decision)
> 
> Rigo

I think this is possible today, though it's the first I recall thinking about it.  The site would detect a visit with no DNT header, and asks you for an exception (and then the usual exception processing goes on).

I guess if a site wants to do this, it should work, and we should make sure nothing has been written that implies the converse.  Unless there is a snag I ain't seeing.

> 
> On Thursday 13 September 2012 12:07:19 Mike O'Neill wrote:
>> The exception API could be amended slightly to make the UA pop up
>> a UI if DNT is unset. In jurisdictions needing explicit consent
>> (like EU), publishers could be required by regulators to use that
>> form of the API (i.e. if DNT is unset then ask the user how they
>> want to handle it, e.g. leave it unset or specify 1 or 0).
> 

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 17 September 2012 21:08:09 UTC