From InfoWorld: Mozilla is on a mission to make encryption on the Web ubiquitous, but the cost could prove too high to pay.
In a blog post made last week, Firefox Security Lead Richard Barnes declared that Mozilla would be "setting a date after which all new features [in Firefox] will be available only to secure websites."
Without a secure connection, some features in Firefox would be disabled entirely, "especially features that pose risks to users’ security and privacy."
The date in question hasn't been set, and debate still lingers about the feature set, especially what constitutes a "new" feature. Barnes noted this could mean "features that cannot be polyfilled"-- features that couldn't be emulated by way of JavaScript shims. This might include "access to new hardware capabilities," such as future varieties of sensors not yet exposed through HTML5 APIs.
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