Re: WebID lack of adoption, was Re: Turtle and JSON-LD Matter

On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:45, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2014-07-20 15:35, henry.story@bblfish.net wrote:
>> 
>> On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:16, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Google scrapped established standards such as TLS CCA, ASN.1, PKCS #10,
>>> <keygen> and still got the entire industry (modulo Apple) backing them.
>> 
>> keygen works fine for me on Chrome. Good developers work around problems, they
>> don't just complain.
> 
> I'm not entirely alone:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0043.html
> 
> Naturally, Microsoft haven't published anything on what *they* consider the right solution.

The important thing is that it is in the html5 standard

  http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-keygen-element

With JavaScript you can easily work around the  Microsoft exception by
calling their ActiveX extension. There was code published on the list here 
to do this in the past. This is the kind of thing that could be documented
here more carefully. Volunteers to improve HOWTOs are welcome.



> Anders
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Ander
>>> 
>> 
>> Social Web Architect
>> http://bblfish.net/
>> 
> 

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Received on Sunday, 20 July 2014 16:17:47 UTC