- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:41:32 +0100
- To: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Cc: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
On Jan 19, 2012, at 17:09 , Eric J. Bowman wrote: > This is the first I'm hearing of this, and I'm tired of being > blindsided by greenfield protocol-layer solutions to problems I never > knew we had, arising from standardization work on a markup language... How is the web platform expected to be viable if it cannot perform some tasks that are trivial for installed applications? In what way is this API a protocol-layer solution? > Can I get back to work now, instead of arguing the obvious point that > this is a user-agent configuration I as a developer want no control > over? Well except that there are quite a few developers, yours truly included, who really want this functionality. In fact, as indicated earlier, I find that some parts of it don't go anywhere near far enough. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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