- From: Ken Buchanan via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:52:41 +0000
- To: public-webauthn@w3.org
There has been renewed interest in this proposal lately and I've updated [the explainer](https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/wiki/Explainer:-WebAuthn-Ambient-Signin-UI) with more current thinking. In particular, it now includes using the [uiMode](https://www.w3.org/TR/credential-management-1/#enumdef-credentialuimode) attribute in the CredMan spec to trigger it.
@MasterKale has asked the question of whether this needs to use `mediation: 'conditional'`, if that just becomes redundant with the `uiMode` value. I've been thinking of this as being Conditional Mediation where the UI is attached to browser chrome and not an input element (autofill), but it's a good question.
In general `{mediation: 'conditional', uiMode: 'passive'}` should work so pages can have both UI options together, but should `{mediation: 'default', uiMode: 'passive'}` also trigger this UI? I don't think it matters much for WebAuthn, but maybe that adds more flexibility for other credential types that might also be displayed.
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