Re: Browser Payments API proposal

2012-06-19 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:05:35 +0200, Alex MacCaw macc...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on a way of integrating one-click payments (and signup) into the browser, and I wanted to put it in front of a few people to get some feedback. The API I was playing about with was pretty simple, and is

Re: Browser Payments API proposal

2012-06-19 Thread Yaar Schnitman
Nice idea Alex! I have done some work on this in the past, but it didn't go very far. A few tips: 1. As long as many users don't have this, websites would still have to do form-based credit-card forms. But browsers and extensions are getting pretty good at auto-filling these forms. So you have a

Re: Browser Payments API proposal

2012-06-19 Thread Elliott Sprehn
I'm not sure this is a problem worth solving in the platform. In 5-10 years I doubt we'll be typing our card numbers into pages. You'll tap your phone to your laptop or use some kind of payment service like paypal/wallet/etc. There's so many security/privacy issues with exposing your payment

Re: Browser Payments API proposal

2012-06-17 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 6/16/12 8:16 PM, ext Alex MacCaw wrote: The blog article link has changed to: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/preview/Pc1LYBw4xDT95OPWZGihod7z8WhrnfAdXMjQxMDg3MTc5NDIaXNjA1p Alex - perhaps this API will be of interest to the Web Payments Community Group http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/.