- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:18:40 -0000
- To: WebIntents <public-web-intents@w3.org>, "Greg Billock" <gbillock@google.com>
As users surf the Web they collect resources and service offers (implementations of actions). Users can initiate actions on resources. Users can make two important choices: what actions to initiate, and on what resources. Often, but not always, they also want to choose the implementation of the action. For some actions however, the user most certainly wants the only available implementation. On the other hand, initiating an action for which no implementation is available is an error. The User Agent manages the list of available implementations and media types they accept, and thereby the list of valid actions for any type of representation of a given resource. Given a resource and types only the User Agent is able to present a list of valid actions to the user. Sites can offer resources, and they can offer services or implementations of actions. User Agents can collect these offers and derive what implementations can be applied to what resources. Finally, it is the user's to tell the User Agent what actions to apply on what resources, and where necessary, what implementation to use. -- (Sorry for the earlier half-post) -,Bjartur
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