- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:25:15 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: James Hawkins <jhawkins@google.com>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
Should Paul Kinlan be Cc'd on this? His concept work is helpful. On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > Why not just improve both navigator.registerContentHandler and > navigator.registerProtocolHandler? > > In particular, why are intents registered via a new HTML element rather > than an API? How do you unregister? How do you determine if the intent was > registered or not? How do you conditionally register (e.g. once the user > has paid for the service)? > > How does an already-open page get to handle an action? e.g. say GMail > wants to handle the "share" intent, and the user already has GMail open, > and the user clicks a "share" button on Flickr. How does the existing > GMail instance get the notification? > > Why are the verbs URLs? > > Why are some verbs hard-coded into the API? > > How are types matched? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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