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Rename `requireUserMediation` to `preventSilentAccess` in Credential Management API

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 60)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This change renames CredentialsContainer.requireUserMediation to CredentialsContainer.preventSilentAccess in the Credential Management API.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-credential-management/
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/724464

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/06/credential-management-updates https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CredentialsContainer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CredentialsContainer/preventSilentAccess

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