- From: Sam Goto <goto@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:52:26 -0800
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Cc: W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>, elf Pavlik <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>
- Message-ID: <CAMtUnc7yt6jacWk88Wxmv0BAqb4yX1-VkAdis9r26ES-GQmHLA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote: > Forwarding from the WHATWG list and nearby. Maybe some tie-in with > http://schema.org/ShareAction etc. ? > > Dan > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> > Date: 3 November 2014 16:42 > Subject: [whatwg] New approach to activities/intents > To: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org> > > > A couple of us at Mozilla have been trying to figure out how to revive > activities/intents for the web. Both work relatively well in closed > environments such as Firefox OS and Android, but seem harder to deploy > in a generic way on the web. > > What we've been looking at instead is solving a smaller use case. A > Sharing API to start and then hopefully reuse the building blocks for > other features that need to be liberated. > > https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Sharing/API has a sketch for what a very > minimal Sharing API could look like. > > Our thinking is that something like the overlay browsing context could > be reused to make e.g. <input type=file> or "save as" extensible going > forward. > > However, admittedly it still doesn't really click. It feels a bit too > much like e.g. the various search extensions browsers offer. Too much > work for little return. I think she gets the problem: the registry can't be the browser. You need a global registry. That's why I think something like semantics (e.g. SearchAction <https://developers.google.com/webmasters/richsnippets/sitelinkssearch>, ShareAction <http://blog.sgo.to/2014/09/schemaorg-actions-implementations.html>, ListenAction <http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2014/06/find-music-on-google-and-start-playing.html>) + web pages + crawlers have a better chance than local registries. I think Yandex Islands is taking this even further to cover unstructured forms <http://beta.yandex.com/>. > Furthermore, freeing the web somehow from > closely knitted silos seems like a worthwhile goal, but is often > counter to what those silos are interested in. So it might be that > we're still not quite there yet, thoughts appreciated. > > (I put WebApps and TAG on bcc, hope that's okay.) > > > -- > https://annevankesteren.nl/ >
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