Re: Charter Addition Proposal: "Trusted Code" for the Web

Sounds like Web Intents.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:52 PM <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:

> 23.03.2015, 20:32, "Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>:
> > On 2015-03-23 19:49, chaals@yandex-team.ru wrote:
> >>  OK, it seems I have so far failed to understand what you are really
> trying to achieve,
> >>  so let me try again…
> >
> > NP.
> >>  23.03.2015, 19:43, "Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>:
> >>>  On 2015-03-23 19:18, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Hi Jeffrey,
> >>>>    Am I right in thinking that your proposal isn't about how to
> declare a
> >>>>    web-delivered piece of code as "trusted", but rather about defining
> >>>>    how to communicate between (untrusted) web code and (trusted)
> native
> >>>>    code delivered with the hardware or browser?
> >>>  Close.  In my take on this, trusted code is supplied in native level
> applications
> >>>  that have been specifically vetted for this usage.
> >>  Where there is a trusted application installed on a device, you want a
> web application
> >>  to be able to pass information to that app, and get it back?
> >
> > Yes, that is the core and is what hundreds of different applications
> already do,
> > albeit using non-standard methods.
>
> Whee! I think I understand the rough problem, at least…
>
> > If we take a subject you are involved in, Web Payments, a local wallet
> would be an
> > excellent target application.
>
> Sure. Some other possibilities to check I have roughly the right idea:
>
> One is a graphics application I happen to have bought might be what I want
> to use for editing my photos on Yandex disk, instead of the built-in online
> editor.
>
> One of the things that drives me nuts about online document editors is
> having them fall over when I am offline. I would rather be able to use an
> installed document editor, and pass edited documents, or changesets, back.
> Github
>
> > Hopefully the referred web2native bridge presentation is also worth a
> brief peek.
>
> I already looked at it and didn't see what I was missing… but I think I'm
> getting there now.
>
> cheers
>
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> Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
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