On 09/27/2013 11:52 PM, From Ryan Sleevi:
Let me try it differently: What actions do you take on this information?
Terminating a current session or triggering authentication to a new session.
As far as I know, IE doesn't provide the smart card insertion/removal events, except perhaps through ActiveX.
Yes exactly.
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?
Consider a banking site or others like administrative sites that use client certificates (provided on a smart card) .
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?
Probably because we like to use a browser for such tasks instead of implementing a dedicated UI. And client certificates (which may be used on smart cards) are part of the browser capabilities.
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