- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:19:17 -0400
- To: Bill McCoy <whmccoy@gmail.com>, MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
- Cc: W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
On 24/06/2017 09:54 , Bill McCoy wrote: > In my understanding all of the W3C Widget specs are considered, in > effect, dead ends as far as mainstream support as part of Open Web > Platforrn is concerned. There were a variety of issues including an > Apple patent that impeded browser implementations. Some stuff got > implemented in a few places such as Apache Cordova. FWIW I believe the Apple patent thing was rejected (it was very far-fetched to start with IMHO). Widgets are dead where broad Web platform support is concerned, but indeed if one were to build a packaging format there would be parts to salvage. The specific details of how to use zip and the URL scheme come to mind (not the manifest, there's another spec for that now). -- • Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon • http://science.ai/ — intelligent science publishing •
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