>If there was a standard by which browsers stored payment and delivery details, a little beefed up from what we have now, would that get us part way?
Isn't that basically the idea of PayPal or Amazon Payments and similar things?
Re:Magic
by thomasfoster96 on Sunday February 22, 2015 @09:27AM
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I'm pretty sure Google Chrome has an API hidden away for payment info. Google seems to market it towards ecommerce developers (that's how I found out about it), but I can't find my documentation on it. Plus it's not on track for any sort of standardisations.
Do you mean https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/input/form/us... ?
If so, it has since become standards track: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#dom-form-r...
If there was a standard by which browsers stored payment and delivery details, a little beefed up from what we have now, would that get us part way? And then an endorsed way of interacting with an ordering system that can answer questions by default (no newsletter signup, no insurance, no warranty, default shipping, etc).
Loads of security issues, but we're going to have to solve this sort of thing eventually.