- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 01:26:12 -0700
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Anders Rundgren wrote: >> >> Now to the really problematic stuff: ?<keygen> is not really an HTML >> tag, it is actually 2 phases of a 3-phase key provisioning protocol. >> I don't see why a protocol should be plugged into a page GUI. ?The >> alternatives all use APIs or specific plugins that indeed may be spawned >> from an HTML page but that's something completely different. > > I agree, <keygen> seems like a poor design. That's one of the reasons I > didn't extend it in HTML5; we're just defining what it does in browsers so > that new browsers can implement it if they want to be compatible with the > existing browsers. We could possibly make it non-conforming though. I don't have a strong opinion either way, on one hand I think we want to discourage its use since it's a pretty crappy feature, on the other hand, I'm not sure that the people that are using it have a choice, so making it non-conforming without providing any alternatives isn't going make anyone stop using it. / Jonas
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