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While it may be interesting from an ease of use point of view, I'm worried it is actually more of move from Google and Microsoft to get more lock-in on their OS
by titanix2 9y ago
While it may be interesting from an ease of use point of view, I'm worried it is actually more of move from Google and Microsoft to get more lock-in on their OS and of the web.
- remir 9y agoTechnically, nothing prevents Apple and Mozilla (and others) from implementing this technology into their products.
- titanix2 9y agoSorry, I didn't details enough. I mean biometric data are gathered from the hardware through system API. This is where system vendors can restrict things, for example by exposing the API to some framework only (e.g. UWP) or even making them private.
- tajen 9y agoAnd exclude vendors who “don’t respect the rules”, whatever the future definition is, so that certain populations can’t access webapps.
- ThoAppelsin 9y agoUnless system vendors discriminate other browsers from their own browser in terms of the said restrictions, I would say that it is fair game. Following your example, if Microsoft were to require browsers use UWP framework to utilize the biometric authentication API, implementing the feature to Edge and not to Internet Explorer, would that be problematic?