Re: Call for Consensus (CfC) to close the Web Intents Task Force - Deadline October 29, 2015

On 15/10/2015 20:32, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> Having been under a flood of other stuff I haven't been around much for
> a while now.  Can someone comment on _why_ the Web Intents work faded
> away?   Checking back in the web intents mail archives, I see Ian Dunlop
> asked this question a year ago and never got an answer. In Tizen we
> certainly use a system for web apps that is conceptually what web
> intents are for, and find it very useful - but it's homegrown and thus
> code using it is not portable.

 From what I can tell, part of the failures were from technical 
challenges, part of it was for lack of overall momentum.

I'll note two recent developments that are in the same spirit as Web 
Intents and Web activities:
* Daniel Buchner making a call to revive work in this space, with a 
specific proposal
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2015OctDec/0070.html
http://www.backalleycoder.com/2015/10/13/app-to-app-interaction-apis/

* the interaction proposed by WebRTC to interface with identity 
providers: 
http://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/webrtc.html#identity-provider-interaction

Dom

Received on Thursday, 15 October 2015 18:42:40 UTC