Re: Web Intents: Opacity

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM, timeless <timeless@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Greg Billock <gbillock@google.com> wrote:
> >>> §2 Opacity
>
> > Something that may become ergonomically helpful and be an acceptable
> > tradeoff is a client ability to request whether any services at all are
> > registered for a particular action/type. I'm leery even of that, though.
>
> I'm rather strongly opposed to even that. It took us years to address
> a:visited, it's too easy to discover if someone has been somewhere and
> abuse that knowledge.
>

Our current proposal has no APIs for this at all. We definitely need to be
careful about any such additions (and even oppose them by default :-)) to
make sure we understand exactly what's at stake.