- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:10:07 +0200
- To: "Marcin Hanclik" <Marcin.Hanclik@access-company.com>, "Stewart Brodie" <stewart.brodie@antplc.com>, "public-device-apis@w3.org" <public-device-apis@w3.org>
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:35:00 +0200, Marcin Hanclik <Marcin.Hanclik@access-company.com> wrote: > On the other hand, I wonder what the term "device API" means. > At present, we want to access the functionality that historically has > been implementated "natively", in C/C++ or in Java. > In the near future we will experience those functionalities beind > developed fully in JavaScript, e.g. contacts, PIM or mail (gmail) > widget. > Then the given functionality will be probably realisable with HTML5 > cross-document / cross-widget messaging. Agreed. I think the APIs that will be most useful are the ones that tie into some kind of hardware feature, e.g. camera, location, direction, etc. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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