Web Environment Integrity: Difference between revisions

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== History ==

On April 25, 2023, Google engineers, Ben Wiser, Borbala Benko, Philipp Pfeiffenberger and Sergey Kataev created a [[GitHub]] repository explaining the details of the proposal.<ref name=repo>{{Citation |last=Wiser |first=Ben |title=Web Environment Integrity API |date=2023-08-18 |url=https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity |access-date=2023-08-19}}</ref> The proposal was [[Flaming (Internet)|flamed]] by GitHub users, with numerous comments, issues and pull requests voicing strong opposition to the existence of the standard and arguing for its deletion.

On July 21, 2023, Wiser and fellow Google engineer Yoav Weiss added a [[code of conduct]] to the explanation repository<ref>{{Cite web |title=Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md · RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity@7998217 |url=https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/commit/7998217b3d7334a71c26c52aeeadc1c6b1ba1dc4 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref> and locked it from receiving new comments, issues or pull requests.{{cn|date=August 2023}} On the same day, preliminary code was added to Chromium to implement the standard.<ref name=":1" /> This also received a large amount of highly negative comments.{{cn|date=August 2023}} On November 2, 2023 the repository was archived, locking it from receiving new comments, issues or pull requests.<ref name=repo />

On November 2, 2023, Google abandoned the proposal, removed the prototype implementation from Chromium, and proposed a replacement API named "Android WebView Media Integrity API" limited to WebViews on Android. Google plans to start testing the new API with partners in early 2024.<ref name="abandoned" />