- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 06:34:20 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 1 May 2010, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Nikita Popov <privat at ni-po.com> wrote: > > I do not deny, that keygen has it's use cases (the "nobody" was hyperbolic). > > I only think, that the use cases are *very* rare. It is overkill to > > introduce an HTML element therefore. It would be much more sane to provide a > > JS API (as Janos proposed.) [I would do it myself, but I have only very > > little knowledge on encryption.] > > We're getting off-topic here, but <keygen> wasn't created by HTML5. It's > an element that IE created, and which was used widely enough in certain > markets that some other browsers were forced to implement it as well. > HTML5 is simply including it because it's apparently important enough > for the web for multiple browsers to implement. It does indeed suck as > a solution, but we don't get to rewrite history. ^_^ If we're not rewriting history, let's make that Netscape, not IE. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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