[Authentication] Proposal for a common secrets handling in webbrowsers

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:48:37 +0200
Guillaume Martres <smarter3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le mercredi 15 juillet 2009 20:36:06, vous avez écrit :
> > >The goal is that browsers share their secrets, so that you can switch
> > > browsers and still have access to all your secrets.
> >
> > This is a difficult target.  I have a feeling that few of the major players
> > are prepared to change something they don't feel is broken (even if it is
> > so).
> >
> > If you made the secrets mobile you could add value but then you of course
> > get a much bigger project.
> >
> > regards
> > Anders
> 
> Yes, I'm aware of that. :P But even if Arora is the only one to implement it, 
> I still think it's a good idea to have it standardized if one day some other 
> browsers decide to look into it.

Fwiw, we might see an implementation for uzbl as well.
For us the benefit is not so much standardisation, but more about "one tool for each job".

Dieter