On Mon, 9 May 2011, Anders Rundgren wrote: > > KeyGen is still a part of the HTML5 draft in spite of: > - Not supported by MSFT > - Not supported by iPhone > - Not support by Safari on Windows > - Not supported by the smart card vendors who have entirely different SW for > accomplishing on-line enrollment
It's supported because browsers have to support it (or ActiveX) to be compatible with the Web. Going forward, vendors interested in crypto should get together to specify a better API. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
