- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 22:19:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>, "ext Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>, W3C Device APIs and Policy WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Adam Barth wrote: > > I think Mark's suggestion is to make these APIs webby by giving them > URLs and letting code interact with them the same way code interacts > with every other web service. Instead of having these URLs represent > remote services, they would represent local services. This lets us > leverage a lot of existing infrastructure, especially in terms of > privacy and security, and aligns the device APIs with the web > architecture. I like this idea. It would mean, for instance, that Web-based contacts services (e.g. Facebook) could plug into the same API that the local contacts database uses. Similarly, sites could use a common Calendar API and the user could decide if it should use the system calendar, or some Web-based calendar. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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