Re: [widgets] Automatic updates attempt 2

On 2008-05-28 18:40:37 +1000, Marcos Caceres wrote:

> Taking into consideration the feedback we received last time,
> here is a new strawman proposal for automatic updates. The
> proposal provides four ways to do automatic updates:

> 1. Point directly to the resource on the web (and let HTTP headers and
> cache control take care of the update).

To me, that sounds like a useful direction to move into.  Note that
you'll want to say a word or two about signature processing in the
processing model for updates.

> 2. Point to an XML file written in our custom XML format (described below).

I'd drop that.

These two:

> 3. From local storage
> 4. API call

... sound like they address orthogonal issues.

Cheers,
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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>