Re: Advice about unprefixing Content-Security-Policy in WebKit from Adam Barth on 2012-08-29 (public-webappsec@w3.org from August 2012)

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:38:22 -0700
To: Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg>
Cc: public-webappsec@w3.org, Mike West <mkwst@chromium.org>
Message-ID: <CAJE5ia9mGES+BjyUB3PxbLZQdA_dGWhHnKthKGALFfSkNx90dQ@mail.gmail.com>

Versioning is an anti-pattern in the web platform.  Notice that none
of the major web languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) use versioning.
There was an extensive discussion about this topic in the HTML working
group in connection with <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4>.

Adam

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> wrote:
> I still think the solution to this issue is adding a mandatory v=1.1
> parameter to CSP 1.1.  It will be unambiguous (the lack of it will
> identify 1.0), and it'll allow backwards-incompatible changes to 1.1
> and future revisions.  And it's not terribly long.
>
> -tom

Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:39:23 UTC