- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:54:23 -0000
- To: WebIntents <public-web-intents@w3.org>, timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
timeless wrote: > Bjartur wrote: >> My understanding was that sites are responsible for showing the picker >> interface for users to select actions. That is what I oppose. > > No. We do not intend for this to be the case, the intent broker (the > UA) will manage the picker interface. > Great! Why, then, need scripts be able to initiate Intents? Perhaps because Intents are in fact to be used for bidirectional communications between clients and services, rather than users and services? > Sites have random layouts, they tend to evolve in competition with > similar sites. Users can deal with this evolution, and they are > involved in that when they vote with their feet in favor of a layout > they like, the losers will evolve to match, improve, or die. Darwinian > theory. > The evolution would be much quicker and less painful if users could switch layouts without refusing to read content from authors who prefer another layout. -- -,Bjartur
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