- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 23:41:59 -0700
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > 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. :-) Yeah, I got corrected offlist. I misremembered. ^_^ ~TJ
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