On Thursday 2016-03-10 02:17 -0800, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:53 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > > Although we've participated in the development of this work in the > > community group, this is an area that we're becoming less involved > > in. > > > > We're also concerned about the general applicability of this work > > to the Web. Our own use of the subset of this API that we > > implement has been restricted to privileged apps on Firefox OS, > > and we're not aware of how it could fit in to the Web's security > > model. > > My personal opinion is that this API is still quite interesting for > TV-products. And that it fits the security model of the web. It's much > less privacy sensitive than getUserMedia or geolocation for example, > and so could use the same security model. The fact that we restricted > it to privileged apps I think was overly cautious.
OK, I suppose it would at least need a good bit of interaction with UI for the user to grant permission, but the API seems sufficiently promise-based that that seems realistic. (Or do others disagree? If so, why?) > However, I don't think that it's high enough priority that it's > something that we should invest in at this time. > > So I would skip the second paragraph and instead add "at this time" to > the end of the first. OK, I'll submit the first paragraph. (I have another week, until March 18, to change the response if needed.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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