Re: jar protocol

On 08/05/2013 01:39 , Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org
> <mailto:robin@w3.org>> wrote:
>     Have you looked at just reusing JAR for this (given that you support
>     it in some form already)? I wonder how well it works. Off the top of
>     my head I see at least two issues:
>
> JARs are just ZIPs with Java metadata.  We don't need metadata, so plain
> ZIPs are enough.

I'm looking at JARs because Gecko supports them. We certainly don't want 
the Java metadata, but we might need some metadata (e.g. media type 
mappings).

> This depends on a document, so it wouldn't work in workers unless we add
> a second API to register them in script.

This isn't initially for Workers, but as indicated previously in this 
thread a method might be useful anyway.

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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Thursday, 9 May 2013 16:03:28 UTC