[rfc][icedtea-web] conditional disabling of manifes tattributes

[Andrew Azores]

On 04/10/2014 08:43 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This patch can disable the check for new manifest attributes.
> sevral motivations
>   -  I hate this feature
>   - the remembering of this actions may take time to implement
>   - and the most important  - the testsuite...

Most important indeed.

>
> will go both head and 1.5.
>
> I'm hesitating whether to make this property public via 
> itw-settings... Well if so, then as another changeset. Any opinion 
> about publish it in itw-settings?
>
> J

Ok to push, so that we can clean up some of the noise in the test suite.

RE putting it in itweb-settings - I think the cleanest way to do this, 
if it's to be done at all, is probably to add another security level. 
'Minimal' or something perhaps? Because I don't think it makes sense to 
add it in as a checkbox, for example, and have it possible to set 
security to High, but disable manifest checks. I'm not sure if we really 
want to allow this, though. I can imagine most users leaving the 
security level at Minimal once they discover that this gives them the 
least amount of clicking to do before getting their applets to run :)

Thanks,

-- 
Andrew A