Re: Proposal: Uniting the Web and "App" worlds

The navigator.connect() effort died at the last Service Worker
Face-to-Face, but foreign-fetch (as I outlined it here) is the logical
replacement.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Anders Rundgren <
anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2015-09-12 00:32, Alex Russell wrote:
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>> I don't think you need a new API here; you can use existing origins and
>> foreign-fetch to do most of these interactions:
>> https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues/684
>>
>> The idea would be to map a native API to a URL and have a fetch to it
>> invoke the method.
>>
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> https://mkruisselbrink.github.io/navigator-connect/use-cases.html#extension
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>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Anders Rundgren <
>> anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     This project have now transcended from "slideware" to
>> proof-of-concept emulator.
>>     API: https://github.com/cyberphone/web2native-bridge#api
>>
>>     To spice it up a bit, I've created two sample applications, one which
>> shows the
>>     basic communication, and another which implements a local "wallet"
>> which can be
>>     tested against a public merchant- and bank-server on the Internet.
>>
>>     For those who feel that schemes like this leads to a closed Web, you
>> can relax,
>>     the system and samples already run on desktop versions of Windows,
>> OS/X, and Linux.
>>
>>     Regarding browser support: Mozilla recently announced that they
>> intend to
>>     implement the underpinning Chrome Native Messaging system.
>>
>>
>>     On 2015-04-28 08:22, Anders Rundgren wrote:
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>>         Dear Web Architects,
>>
>>         As you all know the "App" phenomena has after the introduction of
>> iPhone and Android become at least as popular as the Web.
>>
>>         There's also a bunch of applications that so far haven't made it
>> to Web like Secure/Convenient/Decentralized payments.  Given the fact that
>> the latter has been "on the radar" for 20 years, I think we can safely
>> conclude that it won't happen either.
>>
>>         With this posting I would like to challenge the current thinking
>> (very slowly DUPLICATING the functionality of the "App" world into the
>> Web), by proposing an OPTION enabling developers to rather COMBINE the
>> power of both worlds:
>>
>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-security/2015Apr/0012.html
>>
>>         A notable side-effect of this proposal is that enables Web
>> innovation by third-parties who currently often have no viable alternative
>> to "App"-only solutions.
>>
>>         In a somewhat more market-oriented way: Revitalizing the Web.
>>
>>         Sincerely,
>>         Anders Rundgren
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