On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 16:04, Glenn Adams wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Marcos Caceres <[email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 15:58, Glenn Adams wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Marcos Caceres <[email protected]
> > > (mailto:[email protected]) (mailto:[email protected])>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 13:48, Arthur Barstow wrote:
> > > > > Marcos - would you please enumerate the CR's uses of HTML5 and state
> > > > > whether each usage is to a stable part of HTML5?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 3. "When getting or setting the preferences attribute, if the origin of
> > > > a widget instance is mutable (e.g., if the user agent allows
> > > > document.domain to be dynamically changed), then the user agent must
> > > > perform the preference-origin security check. The concept of origin is
> > > > defined in [HTML]."
> > > > Origin is concept that is well understood - as is the same origin
> > > > policy used by browsers.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > TWI [1] does not define "the origin of a widget instance".
> > That's because they are not bound to any particular URI scheme. Just to
> > some origin.
> > > Nor does HTML5. It is also confusing to say that HTML5 defines the
> > > 'concept of origin', given that it normatively refers to The Web Origin
> > > Concept [2]. TWI needs to be more specific about what aspect of Origin is
> > > being referenced and where that specific aspect is defined.
> >
> >
> > As there are no interoperability issues, I don't agree the TWI spec needs
> > to be updated any further. It's just a simple spec and any further
> > clarifications would just be academic.
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-widgets-apis-20111213/
> > > [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6454
> >
>
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> in that case, please record an objection on my part
>
What, exactly, are you objecting to? Can you demonstrate that there is an
issue?
