[cap-talk] Granting access to web services

[Dirk Pranke]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Kenton Varda <kenton at google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> What "this idea" are you referring to?
>
> Basically what Mark is proposing -- building some sort of capability
> management into the browser.  Several people, including myself, have brought
> proposals like this to the Chrome team and had them shot down.

I can't speak to any proposals that were presented before I joined the
Chrome team, but I can say that since at least two people on this
thread have @chromium.org accounts, it is getting at least some
traction. The question of how to grant access to local devices (which
what is driving this whole discussion) is understood to be a big
problem in Chrome-land. If the proposal solves this problem in a way
that is deemed usable, I'm pretty sure it'll get a real hearing.

You probably can't implement a solution to the local device access
problem without browser help though (the support just isn't there).

-- Dirk

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