Re: A question about action matching

Can you provide a proposal for semantic matching of action?

Thanks,
James

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, cheng zheng <czheng4mailinglist@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am reading the Web Intents spec and got a question about action
> matching. As is pointed out in 3.4 "*The algorithm for matching intents
> is that the action string provided in invocation and registration must
> match exactly*", and in 3.1 "*Chosen strings should be namespaced by a
> URL namespace convention*", here is my problem: taking "EDIT" for
> example, I saw in the demo the action string for registration is "
> http://webintents.org/edit". So when an app invoke a EDIT intents, the so
> called "exact match" may restrict the possible apps for the user. For
> example, in Android, EDIT intent is “android.intent.action.EDIT”, in that
> case, exact match may prevent the user get local apps on the suggestion
> list. But actually, both web apps and Android apps may provide semantically
> same service. So I would ask if it is possible using semantical action
> matching instead.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheng
>