Mozilla's native messaging

This is weird.
All Mozilla folks I have been in contact with (=many) have rejected Native Messaging but now they are doing it anyway:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Native_Messaging

Personally I don't see the purpose with behind-the-curtain sub-standards.

The TAG and WebAppSec folks have had ample of time discussing this topic including a concrete proposal:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-security/2015Apr/0012.html

A security review of Google's take on Native Messaging:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2015Oct/0071.html

Anyway, it was a bit reassuring seeing that my assertion that native messaging is inevitable turned out to be correct :-)
I'm pretty sure that my analysis of the Web Payment API (=total failure) unfortunately will prove to hold as well.

Anders

Received on Tuesday, 3 May 2016 20:44:23 UTC