- From: <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:42:20 +0200
- To: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-webid@w3.org
On 20 Jul 2014, at 18:33, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2014-07-20 18:17, henry.story@bblfish.net wrote: > <snip> >> The important thing is that it is in the html5 standard >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-keygen-element > > > > Why it that? Microsoft doesn't care and neither does Apple (for iOS). I don't care that microsoft does not care since I can work around it using ActiveX. And for iOS I can find solutions that work around that problem too. In the end if we have enough killer apps we can get users to vote with their feet. But for the moment we don't so we do with what we have got, which as it turns out is enough to get going. > >> With JavaScript you can easily work around the Microsoft exception by >> calling their ActiveX extension. > > The problem (for WebID) is that this won't be the case of U2F since > it was designed from the ground-up with interoperability in mind. > > If we for a moment forget the fact that only Google is allowed creating > new authentication schemes, do you have any objections to the following? > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2014Jul/0049.html I don't see why I should have anything against it. How would it benefit me now? How would it benefit me long term? > > Anders Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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