Re: Couple comments on Subresource Integrity

* Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>On 03/25/2014 04:21 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>> The point of the example is that an implementation would need to know
>> which attributes carry integrity information, which is simple with an
>> `integrity` attribute and impossible with your scheme; there is no need
>> for the specification to demand any specific behavior; as an example, a
>> browser vendor might decide never to make the address bar "green" when
>> there is integrity information the browser cannot verify (because the
>> scheme is unknown); there is no need to codify that in the standard.
>
>I disagree that the standard shouldn't weigh in here.  site operators
>need to have a sense of how these directives will be interpreted.

(I meant there is no need for the purposes of my argument and example; I
do agree the Working Group should carefully consider user agent behavior
for the cases you list.)
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