[cap-talk] Whether principals' authority can increase

[Rob Meijer]

On Thu, September 25, 2008 17:49, David Wagner wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>> [design challenge:] The FireFox browser asks the user in
>> a dialog if it wants to import bookmarks from Internet Explorer.  The
>> user authorizes the action, but the powerbox does not know that this
>> authorizing action occured and needs to ask for confirmation.
>
> Rob Meijer wrote:
>> * User -> IE : Give me a handle to my bookmarks that I can delegate.
>> * User -> Firefox : Here is a handle to my bookmarks, use it.
>>
>> It are both still two actions, but two distinct actions, no duplication
>> of
>
> This requires IE to cooperate by providing this functionality.
> But what incentive would IE have to make it easy to switch to another
> browser?  I think the interesting thing about Marcus's problem statement
> is that Firefox wants to be able to import IE's bookmarks, even though
> IE was not written to support this.

The insentive that IE could have to provide this functionality would I
feel be if upgrading to a future IE version using the existing bookmarks
would also require it.


Rob