On Fri, September 27, 2013 1:35 pm, Eddy Nigg wrote: > On 09/27/2013 08:52 PM, From Ryan Sleevi: > > > > How do you deal with this in other browsers? > > Well, I don't...so far :-) > > However I'm aware of similar capabilities with IE. > > > What are the specific features that you need? > > Detection of smart card removal or insertion.
Let me try it differently: What actions do you take on this information? As far as I know, IE doesn't provide the smart card insertion/removal events, except perhaps through ActiveX. Why should a web page care about a user's hardware state, given that there exist no Web APIs to actually leverage this hardware state? This would be akin to wanting to know about USB events, for which there is no USB API for in the Web [putting extensions aside for a moment]. Or wanting to know when the user plugs in a new keyboard or mouse; why should it matter? I enthusiastically welcome Brian's proposal to remove these non-standard features from the Web Platform, and am trying to get a better understanding about what the actual use case is for them (as I believe Brian is as well), in order to understand what, if anything, should replace them. Note that I do not (at this point) believe a replacement needs to be implemented before removing them, but I suppose that's contingent on finding what the actual use case is. > > > Can you think of other ways that might be able to accomplish your goals > > without introducing browser-specific APIs to the open web? > > Maybe an extension, not sure. > > > Have you considered approaching the WHATWG or W3C to actually see this > > adopted as part of the Web Platform, rather than relying on legacy, > > browser-specific solutions that are not standardized, interoperable > > behaviour? > > No, since it works for us there was never a desire for such a > punishment. Besides that I'm not a browser vendor really. > > -- > Regards > > Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. > XMPP: start...@startcom.org > Blog: http://blog.startcom.org/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/eddy_nigg > > -- > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto > -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
