Great news! Congratulations to the group. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Anders Rundgren < anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2014-10-15 17:30, Manu Sporny wrote: > >> Here it is, the moment many of us have been working towards for the last >> 4-5 years! >> >> W3C Launches Web Payments Initiative >> http://www.w3.org/2014/10/payments.html.en >> > > > > "The Interest Group will first focus on digital wallets, which many > in industry consider an effective way to reduce fraud and improve > privacy by having users share sensitive information only with payment > providers, rather than merchants" > > An awesome but also incredibly difficult task. > > It is sad that the W3C spend resources on areas which already are owned > by giant players instead of "simply" making on-line payments secure and > convenient. I don't think you necessarily need a wallet for that, you > rather need to nuke dated stuff like NSS since it blocks progress for > numerous applications (including wallets). > > Local payments invoked through NFC could be written as web applications > but what's the point with that if you have a powerful OS like Android at > your disposal? > > Anders > > > > >> Congratulations to everyone that helped to make this happen. This is a >> huge victory. :) >> -- manu >> >> > >
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