- From: Robin Berjon <robin@robineko.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:43:36 +0100
- To: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>
- Cc: "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>, "public-device-apis@w3.org" <public-device-apis@w3.org>
On Jan 13, 2010, at 15:35 , Frederick Hirsch wrote: > Is there a requirement to allow local access to contacts, for example, even when disconnected from the network? How would this work in this model, or is disconnected operation not a requirement? It seems a mobile device should still operate as much as possible when disconnected. That's entirely orthogonal. Either the web server is local, or (perhaps more likely) it is emulated by the user agent. You never go to the network, whether connected or not. > How would this all relate to the current BONDI and Nokia proposals and the work that has been done with those? It seems to progress this new idea further we need a more concrete proposal, another more detailed submission. Is this something Google is prepared to submit, Mark, or Robin are you offering to do that? I am simply offering to develop a sufficiently complex example that we can make an informed decision. Of course any other input is welcome. It is a largely different approach from those that were submitted, and I do have timeliness concerns. That being said before we start worrying about that I really want to get more concrete with it: we might find out that it makes specifying a number of our APIs actually simpler (yet again, it might not). > I think exploring a given use case using the current submissions as well as this virtual web service approach is warranted, walking through the scenarios and issues, especially since we'd like to identify issues related to requirements, security, usability, interop etc as early as possible. That's why I suggested investigating what doing this with Geo would look like: it's a well-known API, with well-known examples and use cases, it's already done, and it has the right type of problems to be interesting. > By the way, I assume the phrase "web services" is not meant to infer WS* SOAP Web Services in this thread... Over my dead body :) -- Robin Berjon robineko — hired gun, higher standards http://robineko.com/
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