- From: Scott Wilson <scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:25:07 +0000
- To: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-native-web-apps@w3.org
On 6 Mar 2012, at 19:40, Marcos Caceres wrote: > WAC has published an updated draft of their "Webview API" [1], which "lets you pop-up a mini browser inside your application." > > The use cases: > > * Make use of HTTP redirect-based web authentication and authorization protocols (e.g. OAuth 1.0 or OAuth 2.0). We definitely have that UC, and OAuth came up a few times in connection with Widgets. In Wookie its not a big deal as usually we can pop up a new browser window ... but thats not a great UX for mobile and tablet users. In other cases we can use iFrames, but some (e.g. Twitter Web Intents) forbid iFrame use for this. So... definitely maybe :) > * Securely purchase an item on some Website (e.g., buy a book or airline ticket online). > * Browse content on the Web (e.g., view a link derived from some information source like Twitter). > > > If this looks interesting to you, and you think this group would benefit from the spec, I can see if WAC can contribute it to the CG. > > [1] http://specs.wacapps.net/webview/index.html > > >
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