- From: Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:36:00 -0800
- To: Rich Tibbett <richt@opera.com>
- Cc: Anssi Kostiainen <anssi.kostiainen@nokia.com>, "ext Arribas, Laura, VF-Group" <Laura.Arribas@vodafone.com>, "public-device-apis@w3.org WG" <public-device-apis@w3.org>
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Rich Tibbett <richt@opera.com> wrote: > Anssi Kostiainen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 5.1.2011, at 12.11, ext Arribas, Laura, VF-Group wrote: >>> >>> Regarding Powerbox, is >>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2010Feb/att-0140/ >>> Overview.html the latest documentation? >> >> The latest Web Introducer (formerly Powerbox) spec is at: >> >> http://web-send.org/introducer/ >> >> For more info, see: >> >> http://web-send.org/ >> >> Perhaps someone of the editors could give an update. >> > > An update from the editors would be good. It looks interesting but still > seems that there is a fair bit of work to be done to create accompanying > specifications for different datatypes (or 'intents'). Since we last discussed the Powerbox on this mailing list, it's gone through one significant redesign and been renamed the Introducer. The links above point to the most up to date information about the Introducer. The major goal of the redesign was to enable offline operation of the Introducer, so that offline Web applications could continue sharing even when there is no Internet connection. This redesign also resulted in several other improvements, such as better user privacy. An explanation of the important features is at: http://web-send.org/features.html The redesign also resulted in a much smaller specification, which always makes me happy. I've also created a specification and implementation for the first datatype specification built on top of the Introducer. See the Bookmark Introducer at: http://web-send.org/bookmark/ The Bookmark Introducer enables a Customer to share a single hyperlink with a user-selected Provider. For example, social bookmarking such as Facebook Like functionality is enabled by the Bookmark Introducer. Using the Bookmark Introducer for this functionality, instead of hardcoding to a particular site such as Facebook, creates a secure and open environment for social bookmarking. I'm still interested in using the Introducer in combination with other DAP work. > I'd also be interested if anyone knows the relationship of the Web Send > project with the Web Intents project since they both seem to have very > similar goals: > > http://webintents.appspot.com/ The Web Intents work apparently started without knowing about the Introducer work. We are talking now to see if the proposals can be merged. --Tyler -- "Waterken News: Capability security on the Web" http://waterken.sourceforge.net/recent.html
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