It would be very useful to have the possibility to have the signText() for backward compatibilty with Netscape 4, and have several other function that sign HTML Form Elements. Very important will be the possibility to sign <INPUT type="text"> <INPUT type="file">, and also radio buttons, and lists.
Signing of a file input element would be crucial to an application that we are developing right now. I think that backward compatibility of signText() would be good, but it will not be much important, as currently WEB developers need to code different things for signing HTML in MSIE. It would be a good idea to have a function i.e. signElement() which would sign the contents of a DOM Element. This would make form signing much easier for coders. Regards, Mihail Daskalov Stephane Saux wrote: > The Netscape Crypto team is thinking about restoring the 4.X form > signing functionality in the next release. We would like to hear from > the crypto community, particularly from users of the 4.x > crypto.signText() functionality: > > > - Are you happy with the functionality? > - If form signing was re-introduced, would signText() backward > compatibility be important? > - What other form signing features should the Netscape support? > > Stephane Saux. > Manager, Netscape Client Crypto engineering. >
