Re: Web Wishes

On Jul 1, 2013 7:22 AM, "François REMY" <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
wrote:
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>> Say if you're embedding Photoshop to edit an image with it, then the
embed page just shows the picture and Photoshop is launched as usual. (And
you can get it to cooperate without it knowing it by watching the file and
sending events every time it's saved — imperfect but hey, we have to work
in steps.)
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>
> Okay but what's the point? How is that better than leaving the UA do the
hard work of displaying the app the way is the most natural to the
platform? On Windows 8, the Share charm is displayed the same way every
time and is totally outside of control of the share initiator, and that's
absolutely awesome because this uniformity brings a lot of potential for
innovation to the platform instead of to the app. They added new sharing
possibilities to Windows 8.1 with no need for any change in the apps
because Microsoft was in total control of the experience. If it was up to
apps to choose the size and location the sharing control, maybe some would
have fitted the box in a way that made it impossible for the OS to show
more on-screen content. Also, the user looses the benefits of consitency.
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> (however, this should probably be discussed inside the TAG group as it's
all about API design, I'm not sure it's really linked to the charter of
this working group)
>

I agree that this might be a good discussion for TAG, but... RE: charter,
François, recall that part of our aim as discussed when the group was
established wad to help determine missing pieces in the Web Platform which
make it difficult to impossible to prollyfill something and to lobby for
the prioritization of those things.

As such, I think that some discussion along those lines is entirely
appropriate here as well if we are to do that effectively.

We have a TAG co-chair and member as members here who can help bubble that
up and guide it too.