- From: John Merrells <merrells@sxip.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:44:57 -0700
- To: Mike Beltzner <beltzner@mozilla.com>
- Cc: public-usable-authentication@w3.org
On 17-Apr-06, at 9:09 PM, Mike Beltzner wrote: > At the conference we briefly discussed the potential for websites > to prompt browsers to enter a secure mode for a given page (using > some sort of meta tag, maybe?). The idea being that secure mode > would only needed at the point of web authentication or login, > after which point the app should be free to take advantage of all > sorts of bells and whistles. I think this is an area that the W3C could make a strong contribution. We need standard ways of signaling to the user agent that the site wants to initiate an identity information exchange and standard ways of signaling to the user what's going on. This conversation is also currently being played out on the IIW mailing list. John
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