Re: Distributing the user interface for social networks

Hi Evan,

I like this because it's a simple solution to an important problem we
currently have. i think another solution to the same problem is
WebIntents, and obviously remoteStorage can also solve it, but they
are more generic solutions to a wider set of problems each, and i
think it would be good to experiment also with a more specific
solution like the one you describe.

it does mean that you have to type in your user address into the
widget. so there WebIntents have an advantage because you would
presumably have your home node in your installed apps, so that its
share intent is always registered.  but i understand if you think
webintents is too experimental still at this point (only chrome does
it natively so far, and few people use browser-installed apps still).

I do think it would be cooler to use OAuth2's Implicit Grant flow
here. This means that example.net never gets to see the token (unless
it harvests it from the js runtime but that would be a weird thing to
do). In particular, it would mean the widget could be statics-only,
and you remove a example.net from the flow entirely in the widget
case. i'm always keen to reduce the role of servers and do more things
in client-side javascript. :)

Cheers,
Michiel

Received on Monday, 9 July 2012 21:31:04 UTC