- From: Nathan Kitchen <w3c@nathankitchen.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:59:25 +0100
- To: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
- Message-ID: <AANLkTikfctHr+9bwyc_ue5UNOW7eDChtHdpFQVCWAFQc@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks, I posted a comment on the original article to shed some light on this. Looks like the iOS implementation either doesn't follow the recommendations or doesn't give the user the means (information or functionality) to prevent user tracking. Hopefully this will stop people complaining about the spec and encourage them take up their complaint with the vendors instead. Cheers. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Nathan Kitchen <w3c@nathankitchen.com>wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> Stumbled across this article on Ars Technica regarding the abuse of the >> WebSQL spec. I thought I'd share it here for a couple of reasons: >> >> 1. Someone might want to point out that it's part of the Offline >> Storage Spec, not strictly HTML5. >> >> HTML5 is a buzz word. Like AJAX or LAMP. Very few people in this world > (should) care about precisely what spec something came from. > >> >> 1. Security implications may inform some aspects of the spec. >> >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#user-tracking and > http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/#user-tracking already addresses > EXACTLY this. I don't think there's anything to do from a spec standpoint. > >> >> >> Article: *Advertisers get hands stuck inside HTML5 database cookie jar* ( >> http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/rldguid-tracking-cookies-in-safari-database-form.ars >> ) >> >> Thanks. >> >> Nathan >> > >
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