Re: Proposal for a Permissions API

2015-03-22 Thread Anders Rundgren
On 2015-03-21 22:47, Florian Bösch wrote: Time to revise this topic. Two data points: 1) Particularly with pointerlock (but also with other permission prompts > that sneak up on the user) I often get the complaint from users along the > lines of "I tried your stuff, but it didn't work." or "I t

Re: Proposal for a Permissions API

2015-03-22 Thread Florian Bösch
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Florian Bösch wrote: > 2) MRI scans show that user attention dramatically drops when presented > with a security prompt: > http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/mris-show-our-brains-shutting-down-when-we-see-security-prompts/ > It's also likely the case that (

Re: Proposal for a Permissions API

2015-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Yasskin
The Permissions API moved to the WebAppSec WG, and there's an open call for comments on publishing its FPWD: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2015Mar/0131.html. It would probably make more sense to discuss in that group. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Florian Bösch wrote: >

[XHR] UTF-16 - do content sniffing or not?

2015-03-22 Thread Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
Hi, I've just added a test loading UTF-16 data with XHR, and it exposes an implementation difference that should probably be discussed: Given a server which sends UTF-16 data with a UTF-16 BOM but does *not* send "charset=UTF-16" in the Content-Type header - should the browser detect the encoding,