- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:09:17 -0800
- To: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- CC: WebIntents <public-web-intents@w3.org>, Greg Billock <gbillock@google.com>
On 11/23/11 1:36 PM, timeless wrote: >> > More generally, this connection discovery mechanism allows us to envision >> > a new class of web applications which could exploit protocol translations >> > for MessageChannel (i.e. FTP, SSH, JDBC). Some cursory looking around didn't >> > show any W3C effort around this; perhaps UPNP is a good place to start.:-) >> > (I know very little about it.) > I'd really like to avoid message channels in favor of RPC (Intents). > The odds of a given device that supports UPnP being able to deploy an > arbitrary MessageChannel protocol are effectively 0. As it is, we're > asking people like Clarke [5] to write code that enables gatewaying > Intents, we shouldn't ask them to gateway additional protocols, it > creates too high of a barrier and will cause them to run away > screaming. Web applications support MessageChannel and it's quite plausible that devices and/or device gateways will support channels. AFAIK, the primary target of Intents at this time is web services and the UIs those services launch support web messaging, and as such, channels.
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