Re: Proposal: Prefer secure origins for powerful new web platform features

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Ian Melven <ian.melven@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not seeing any arguments against requiring secure origins for certain
> functionality beyond the same old arguments against using SSL :
>
> * it costs some almost negligible amount of money
> * it requires some non-zero amount of work on the part of the website
> operator
>
> am i missing something ?

Yes, Netflix pointing out TLS would cost them non-negligible amounts
of money. Mark said he was getting data on that, so waiting for that
data seems like the best way forward here.


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Received on Friday, 22 August 2014 06:10:08 UTC