On 04/13/2010 04:37 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:06:06 +0200, Mounir Lamouri > <[email protected]> wrote: >> First of all, the keytype attribute should specify which algorithm to >> use but it can be in the 'unknown state' and "it is possible for a user >> agent to not support any key types at all.". I do not understand why the >> keygen element would be implemented with no supported keytype. It would >> be really weird and confusing to have a keygen element with no keytype. > > This was done as a compromise to Microsoft. That the element is parsed > consistently and exposes the correct API was considered to be the most > important if I remember correctly. (More details can be found in the > [email protected] archives.)
For people interested, the thread is: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0043.html Actually, it looks like it is ending with the intervention of Alan Dundas [1] which was interesting. I'm wondering if points 5 and 6 could be added to the specs. In my opinion, point 5 would be interesting (and trivial) and point 6 is a matter of time, isn't it ? [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/1025.html -- Mounir
