On 5/24/2012 3:43 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 23/05/12 16:20, Fabrice Desre wrote:
Nothing, like for many other things you trust your UA.
But this isn't a case of "trusting" the UA - the user may well _want_
the UA to ignore such things. It's the app author who has to trust the
UA; what incentives does the UA author (who responds to the wishes of
the user, right? User control, and all that) have to respect this setting?
The user is trusting the UA to implement the apps specification correctly.
If I were writing a UA, and could reliably distinguish between free and
paid apps, I'd certainly ignore this value for free apps. More apps work
in my UA, my users are happier, the app author shouldn't care which site
pointed me at his app, I've installed it just the same way as everyone
else; everyone wins.
I think it is a flawed assumption to say "the app shouldn't care which
site pointed me at this app", and it is not respectful for us to make
that call on behalf of someone else.
Respecting the wishes of a developer is equally important as empowering
the user, if developers aren't happy with the way things work, there
would be no apps for users to install in the first place.
-Anant
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