On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > On 9/6/11 2:25 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> The Accept header is also a privacy violation, which is in part why browsers tend to be somewhat circumspect in what they send there. In addition, both Accept: headers and a getUserMediaCapabilities() method would increase the fingerprinting risk. > > And the lack of an ability to build useful applications on the platform will result in abandoning the browser environment in favor of native code that can do what is necessary. Or will result in the usage of non-standard / proprietary alternatives or similar plugins/applets. (as is the case now) Dan -- Dan York, CISSP, Director of Conversations Voxeo Corporation http://www.voxeo.com dyork@voxeo.com Phone: +1-321-710-9193 skype: danyork sip:dyork@voxeo.com Join the Voxeo conversation: Blogs: http://blogs.voxeo.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/voxeo http://twitter.com/danyork Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/voxeo
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