[whatwg] Status bars and progress indicators

[Matthew Raymond]

Afternoon wrote:
> You mentioning signing of applets in your reply to Matthew Raymond in 
> this thread. Has anybody considered signing web applications so that 
> they can perform restricted tasks?
> 
> Or is this a silly idea?

    Silly? I'm beginning to wonder if it's unavoidable. I see it as the 
only way to safely use some of the proposed markup features like tags 
for status bars and "chromeless" windows. Anyone want to way in on this?