Re: [KEYPROV] Microsoft: <keygen> is old and very basic

[Adrian Bateman <adrianba at microsoft.com>]

On Saturday, August 08, 2009 12:50 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0389.html
> 
> However, that doesn't make Microsoft's solution ideal either because it
> also fails to address provisioning in a way that is even remotely
> comparable to what current card management software offers.

Hi Anders,

Thanks for the mail and the forward to the lists in the CC line.

I certainly wasn't trying to make a claim that Microsoft's solution is ideal - this isn't my area of expertise so I wouldn't be able to judge that. I have forwarded your mail on to a team better equipped to give feedback. My question was, based on the feedback I'd heard, whether or not it made sense to standardize the old <keygen> behaviour in HTML 5 when a more modern solution might be more appropriate.

I will follow-up here when I get more feedback from the team that looks after this area.

Regards,

Adrian.