On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Nikita Popov <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not deny, that keygen has it's use cases (the "nobody" was hyperbolic). > I only think, that the use cases are *very* rare. It is overkill to > introduce an HTML element therefore. It would be much more sane to provide a > JS API (as Janos proposed.) [I would do it myself, but I have only very > little knowledge on encryption.]
We're getting off-topic here, but <keygen> wasn't created by HTML5. It's an element that IE created, and which was used widely enough in certain markets that some other browsers were forced to implement it as well. HTML5 is simply including it because it's apparently important enough for the web for multiple browsers to implement. It does indeed suck as a solution, but we don't get to rewrite history. ^_^ ~TJ
