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23 Sep 2009

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Attendees

Present
+1.978.899.aaaa, +1.925.984.aabb, steele, Mez, yngve
Regrets
Anil_S, Thomas_R
Chair
Mez
Scribe
steele

Contents


 

 

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2009/07/15-wsc-minutes.html

Topic: Approving Minutes

minutes are approved with no comments

Topic: Agenda Bashing

Comments from Web Apps WG review

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/actions/pendingreview

closing editorial pending actions

not reviewing open actions

mez: starting the review

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/open

mez: deadline is tomorrow for comments from WebApps
... going top down

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/227

mez: "user agent" inconsistency

http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#robustness-apis

mez: this is the section we asked them to review
... using the word "browser" in this section
... should we generally replace "browser" with "user agent"?

yngve: don't see a problem at first pass

mez: action should be to change "web user agent" to "user agent" and "browser" to "agent" except in the definition.

<Mez> action anil to amend "web user agent" and "browser" as above

<trackbot> Created ACTION-624 - Amend "web user agent" and "browser" as above [on Anil Saldhana - due 2009-09-30].

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/227

mez: "top level web page" definition

<jvkrey> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#definitions

yngve: probably he is referring to 4.2 section

mez: not inclined to make the change here without more expert vouching of this suggestion
... yngve -- can you and ana discuss this and come back to us?

yngve: we need to make sure we are specifically talking about the top frame of the document -- maybe include a mention "in case of framed documents"

<Mez> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-usable-authentication/2009Sep/0000.html

mez: "chrome" -- I don't think it is good to make small exceptions like this without a good reason -- reviewing actual email now

I think he is confused about chrome in the context of a web app versus chrome in the context of the web user agent. We are only concerned about the latter

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/227

mez: more on issue 227
... do we need a definition of chrome?

ygnve: we are talking about mainly the primary user interface

<jvkrey> javascript:alert("obscured!");

mez: I think by chrome we mean both primary and secondary visual interfaces -- what do other people think?

referring to section 7.2

ygnve: secondary user interface will usually popup over all content
... I am fine with saying chrome refers to non-content portions of the primary and secondary user interfaces

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#common-widgets

mez: leaning towards saying we use chrome to mean both primary and secondary user interfaces

<Mez> action tlr to specify that chrome refers to both primary and secondary ui

<trackbot> Created ACTION-625 - Specify that chrome refers to both primary and secondary ui [on Thomas Roessler - due 2009-09-30].

mez: make an editorial action and give this to Thomas

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/227

mez: widget

yngve: this term is also used in user interface terminology

mez: we have already discussed this -- we should leave it as is

ygnve: no strong opinion -- we might add a parenthesis further defining (referring to user interface component)

mez: unless there is a firm proposal let's not

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/228

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#robustness-apis-obscure-security-ui

discussion of whether "must not" in 7.4.1 should be upper case

mez: think this is editorial

ygnve: yes

steele:+1

<Mez> action anil to make change in issue-228 (upcase)

<trackbot> Created ACTION-626 - Make change in issue-228 (upcase) [on Anil Saldhana - due 2009-09-30].

<jvkrey> change the by/for also?

steele:+1 all around

<Mez> action anil to change "for" to "by" in last paragraph of 7.4.1

<trackbot> Created ACTION-627 - Change "for" to "by" in last paragraph of 7.4.1 [on Anil Saldhana - due 2009-09-30].

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/229

mez: issue 229

<Mez> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-usable-authentication/2009Sep/0001.html

mez: in 7.2. do we talk about a chromeless mode?

ygnve: we have a number of exceptions -- e.g. mobile devices

steele:he may be referring to 7.1?

mez: ask for clarification?
... any concrete proposals?

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/229

ygnve: needs more clarification

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#sec-tls-indicator

mez: discussion widget signing -- need for indicator

steele:what is the relationship between "user agent" is for WebApps WG and "user agent" for us? It is not clear that one is a subset of the other

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/230

mez: anyone familiar with BONDI?
... it is possible that commenter is giving an example of something that would fall under the SHOULD NOT clause of 7.4.2

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#sec-tls-indicator

<discussion on installing software>

ygnve: mean a more permanent embedding of the executable code? (cleanup please)

mez: what about file apis? why is writing files to the disk not the same as installing software?

ygnve: needs to have some way of associating it with execution

mez: let's not change the document -- just reply in natural language

<Mez> pick up at "Why can't the user agent simply ignore these attempts?

<Mez> "

mez: thanks for coming!

<Mez> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/Group/cheatsheet

Summary of Action Items

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