- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:46:34 +0100
- To: Rich Tibbett <rich.tibbett@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-device-apis <public-device-apis@w3.org>
Hi Rich, I took an action item (ACTION-298) to review your draft ContactBlobWriter [1]. >From what I understand, it allows to create and save a new contact: to do that, it creates a Blob object with the contacts information, and then generates a URI that can be associated with e.g. a link to allow for user download. While the Blob-from-contacts method looks like a useful abstraction, I'm not sure I see the point of generating specifically a URI for it: surely the FileWriter API is the sufficient abstraction for the user-download part? Regarding blob-from-contacts, I also wonder if we actually need to create a dedicated method for this; it seems to be this could be something provided by an external JavaScript library that would serialize the contacts information in whatever format is best adapted to the user/application needs (vcard, poco, etc). The one thing that the browser could provide to facilitate that work is the list of contacts formats supported by the underlying contacts application (which is something that probably would be worth extending to a more general approach, possibly as part of the stalled work on application launcher). Dom 1. http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/contacts/BlobWriter.html
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