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Re: [apps-discuss] "X-" revisited

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 07 July 2011 03:54 UTC

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On 7/6/11 9:30 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
>>
>> Is there some kind of attack lurking here that we're not aware of?
>> Parameter phishing or somesuch?
>>
> 
> No, that was not my concern. I am mostly trying to map your arguments
> onto the way we're currently evolving the HTML APIs, which follow a
> similar convention to X- (the vendor prefixes).

Can you provide a pointer for this work?

Peter

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