[ALUG] Chrome 68 and HTTPS

[Tim Schofield]

Initially Google's proposal was to ignore any css in pages that only
used http effectively making the pages useless to force people to use
https.

We had a discussion on that a while ago, and you said they were right
to censor the web.

On 9 July 2018 at 22:37, Andreas Tauscher via Linux
<linux at mail.habari.co.tz> wrote:
>
>> Initially Google threatened to censor the web by deliberately breaking
>> http only sites by not using the css.
>
> When and where?
> Forcing you to use css?
> And how is htmls/css related with http(s)?
> The one is the standard how to describe content in a way a browsers can
> display it and the other is a transport protocol.
> Only because http(s) is mainly used to transport html described content
> does not mean that the one depending on the other.
>
> Ok, a number of HTML tags like blink (which was anyway never standard)
> basefont, big, center, font, strike, tt have been officially removed
> from the html standard. But most (except blink I am sure) still
> supported by most browsers.
> This is only implementing the actual version of the w3c standard.
> If I want to archive some old pages using this obsolete tags and the
> browser is not longer supporting them: This is either a simple filter on
> the server side replacing them on the fly with some css code. This will
> surely not break any website. Or a little bit java script.
>
>> According to your post they have gone back on this now and will just
>> warn about it. This is much better than censorship.
>
> What has this to do with censorship to kick some lazy webmasters in
> their ass and facing the reality: Unencrypted traffic is a no-go.
> The web is not the nice flower-garden it maybe looked like in 1994.
>
> Chrome is going now going an step ahead and not only warning like
> firefox when a page with a form is not https.
> Now this warning is general.
> Good.
>
>
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