On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 16:14, Marcos Caceres wrote:
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> On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 16:11, Glenn Adams wrote:
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> > > in that case, please record an objection on my part
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> > just to be clear, I mean an objection to publishing as PR unless this is
> > clarified; i believe this is an issue because the concept and use of origin
> > is (1) very complex and (2) thus prone to misinterpretation; for example,
> > it is not well recognized that HTML5 itself does not require a UA to send
> > an Origin header in a URL request (see [3])
> Yes, but those are issue of RFC6454 and the HTML5 spec (as well as Web
> Storage). But what does this have to do with Widgets?
Glenn and I discussed this on IRC. Glenn suggested I add the following to the
definition of a widget instance:
"The origin of a widget instance is the origin of the Document object
associated with the widget instance's browsing context."
I agree with Glenns recommendation, so I've go ahead and added that:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/#widget-instance
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Marcos Caceres
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