Re: Issue for discussion on Wed - User Agent Compliance

Well the good news on mobile is that nothing will be triggering a plugin.
All current browser OEM's running on mobile have disabled the plugin
interface. 


Peter
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On 7/16/13 10:24 AM, "Rigo Wenning" <rigo@w3.org> wrote:

>David, 
>
>the issue is that you don't want the browser or one of the search bars
>or tools to phone home. This was pretty clear in HTML 4. In HTML5 the
>distinction between browser-search-bar phoning home and widget ABC
>phoning home and a web page tracking starts to blur. But what they all
>do is sending browser history information or uniqueID. All other stuff
>is mainly harmless.
>
>What Issue is this attached to and if there is none, we should create
>one. 
>
> --Rigo
>
>On Tuesday 16 July 2013 18:06:33 David Singer wrote:
>> >> "A user agent MUST NOT share information related to the network
>> >> interaction with any party other than the user without consent."
>> >
>> > 
>> >
>> > This would mean that the user agent can not load a thing without
>> > consent. Because the user agent must share IP address and other
>> > things  with a lot of parties other than the user to obtain the
>> > content and just that (not even tracking).
>> >
>> > 
>> >
>> > I know what you mean, the wording still doesn't do the trick. The
>> > problem here is not the consensus, but the wordingŠ
>> 
>> whoops, maybe you are right.  let's keep thinking.
>> 
>> but, let's say I visit a site that needs a plug-in.  somehow I trigger
>> you into loading a page that loads that plug-in.  haven't you just
>> visited that other site?
>> 
>> OK, let's imagine a browser that has a table, "if a page needs X, then
>> load Y form site Z".  Now I visit Q, which needs X loaded (a font, a
>> plug-in, whatever).  The browser detects this and asks "do you want
>> to load Y from Z, it's needed for this page?".  The user says
>> yes;  the browser then visits Z to load Y, but there is no reason for
>> it to mention Q (or for any data to flow between or about Q and Y) is
>> there?
>

Received on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 19:12:54 UTC