Re: Web Wishes

> In other words, let people innovate in apps in small chunks, rather than 
> require someone take over a large project (or even find unlikely extension 
> points in an existing one). It's not just the technology that should be 
> extensible.

Okay, this is quite interesting. I didn't see it in that way.

I think this is not the exact same thing as web intents, which I really see 
as a way to launch a new app, but in fact a way to create a GAC (global 
assembly catalog) of Web Components with a standardized set of interaction 
contracts among them so that apps can simply rely on existings components 
instead of shipping their own. In a sense, it looks a lot like COM/ActiveX 
for web. This is indeed very innovative and interesting, and I can clearly 
see how this can fit in the spectrum of this CG.

The difficulty here is probably not so much defining the meta API 
(Wish/Intent/...) that handles the communication between the components, but 
probably the specific contracts because those contracts are really dependent 
on the specifics of the interaction expected from the web component. Even a 
text editor would probably surface rather complex contract with things like 
selection capabilities, getting the text back, context menu actions, 
tooltips...

Received on Monday, 1 July 2013 12:50:46 UTC