[whatwg] Installable web apps

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:26:12 +0200, Atul Varma <avarma at mozilla.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I think that giving developers tools to easily
> define more granular security mechanisms without resorting to subdomains
> is a win in terms of usability, as it's quite difficult to figure out
> how to create subdomains and do virtual hosting--to say nothing of doing
> it over SSL.

On DreamHost creating a new subdomain is a couple of clicks...


> That said, introducing a brand new mechanism for security on top of SOP
> does seem like it might make the security landscape more complex as a
> whole, and thereby potentially more vulnerable.


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