Merge Anne's change: Oct 11, 2012, clarify a note with regards to authorization prompts
--- a/Overview.html Mon Nov 19 11:53:13 2012 +0900
+++ b/Overview.html Mon Nov 19 11:58:06 2012 +0900
@@ -1575,8 +1575,10 @@
must not prompt the end user for their username and
password. <a href="#refsHTTPAUTH">[HTTPAUTH]</a>
- <p class="note">End users are not prompted for various cases so that
- authors can implement their own user interface.</p>
+ <p class="note">Unfortunately end users are prompted because of legacy
+ content constraints. However, when possible this behavior is prohibited,
+ as it is bad UI. E.g. that is why the
+ <a class="external" href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/origin-0.html#same-origin">same origin</a> restriction is made above.
<hr>
@@ -2923,6 +2925,7 @@
Alex Hopmann,
Alex Vincent,
Alexey Proskuryakov,
+ Andrea Marchesini,
Asbjørn Ulsberg,
Boris Zbarsky,
Björn Höhrmann,
--- a/Overview.src.html Mon Nov 19 11:53:13 2012 +0900
+++ b/Overview.src.html Mon Nov 19 11:58:06 2012 +0900
@@ -1539,8 +1539,10 @@
must not prompt the end user for their username and
password. <span data-anolis-ref>HTTPAUTH</span>
- <p class=note>End users are not prompted for various cases so that
- authors can implement their own user interface.</p>
+ <p class=note>Unfortunately end users are prompted because of legacy
+ content constraints. However, when possible this behavior is prohibited,
+ as it is bad UI. E.g. that is why the
+ <span data-anolis-spec=html>same origin</span> restriction is made above.
<hr>
@@ -2832,6 +2834,7 @@
Alex Hopmann,
Alex Vincent,
Alexey Proskuryakov,
+ Andrea Marchesini,
Asbjørn Ulsberg,
Boris Zbarsky,
Björn Höhrmann,