- From: James Hawkins <jhawkins@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:59:16 -0800
- To: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Cc: WebIntents <public-web-intents@w3.org>, Greg Billock <gbillock@google.com>
Bjartur, I'll start a thread with you off-list to see where the confusion is and then update the doc as necessary. Thanks, James On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:41:35 -0000, Greg Billock <gbillock@google.com> > wrote: >> >> No. The proposal can be found at >> http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/webintentsapi >> > Yeah, I had read the JavaScript API proposal and failed to apprehend the use > cases. > > Say you have a HTTP file storage service. You could POST new files to /, > where from you could also GET an index of uploaded files. You could then PUT > modifications to the URI of any previously uploaded file. > > This means the user can GET a file, edit it (locally or by piping it through > a third host) and PUT it back. The file storage service has only to inform > the User Agent as to what methods are supported for each resource (or class > of resources, by using URI templates). > > My failure to understand what problems Web Intents are to solve, and how, > seem more fundamental than a simple misreading of a document. I must be > missing something so basic nobody has considered it worth stating > explicitly. > -- > -,Bjartur >
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