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Yeah it reads like they got too much bad press and outright hostile pushback from Plan A so they're switching to Plan B and hoping to boil the proverbial frog s

• danShumway 3y ago
  This is almost exactly my worry, especially since this will for all intents and purposes be a web API that only works on one browser. So if Google comes back and tries to standardize this again, do they now rush it through the standardization process and say, "look, servers are already using this API, we're not doing anything new, we're just adding it to more browsers." Embedded webview is a web browser. This allows them to launch an API for remote attestation as a working implementation in a web browser and ship it to developers and users -- and that's a big chunk of standardization right there. ---- I'm not thrilled with it for Android either, but if I could trust that it was only ever going to stay in Android webview then I'd feel at least a little better about it. But Google has no way to credibly commit to that, and they've given no details or retrospectives about WEI. We get like 2 paragraphs in an email thread and 2 sentences in a press release that just says, "yeah, we're not working on that anymore." It's very difficult to trust that.