- From: Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:51:15 -0800
- To: Dirk Pranke <dpranke@google.com>
- Cc: W3C Device APIs and Policy WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>
Hi Dirk, I was thinking Providers would be advertised in much the same way as RSS feeds currently are. Similarly, the browser could offer installation of a Provider in much the same way they currently offer subscription to an RSS feed. I wasn't thinking pop-up dialogs. I'll add some text to this effect in the non-normative text of Section 4. Thanks, --Tyler On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke@google.com> wrote: > Hi Tyler, > > I think the language in Section 4, "Provider Installation" could > perhaps be clarified. Namely, from reading it (admittedly somewhat > quickly) there were at least two things that were unclear to me. > > First, on using the <link rel="Provider"> for provider discovery, how > would you imagine this to be used. Would you imagine, for example, > that Flickr would link to a photo-chooser provider from every page on > their site? Just the home page? Or something else? > > Second, you state that "A user-agent MUST provide a presentation of an > offered Provider", which to me sounds like the user-agent is popping > up a dialog box on every page, and the user (-agent) can't tell that > dialog to never be shown again. Or, that the user/-agent isn't free to > say "never show me providers unless I ask for them". Perhaps there's > some way this can be altered to be more popup-banning friendly? > > -- Dirk > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com> wrote: >> Mark Miller, Marc Seaborn and myself have created a draft proposal for >> a RESTful approach to addressing the design challenges this WG is >> working one. The Powerbox is a general purpose mechanism for >> introducing customer content to new and potentially private resources. >> New kinds of resources can be made accessible to Web content by using >> the Powerbox for discovery and introduction, existing user-agent APIs >> such as XMLHttpRequest for interaction, existing MIME media types for >> syntax, and HTTP methods for general semantics. >> >> The attached proposal provides exact details on how a Powerbox works, >> provides advice on how to use it and explains one example use-case, >> making a video camera accessible to Web content. I hope to expand the >> proposal with additional examples. Please suggest examples you'd find >> compelling. >> >> We hope this proposal can provide a basis for this WG's design work, >> so we're interested in feedback on the proposal and how it might >> better meet the needs of this WG. >> >> --Tyler >> > -- "Waterken News: Capability security on the Web" http://waterken.sourceforge.net/recent.html
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