Re: A simpler, webbier approach to Web Intents?

Oh, sorry. I ended up here after I asked on public-webapps about a
standard way to establish communications between cross-domain iframes
and a web page. Allowing plugin authors and plugin users to succeed
without negotiating with the framework authors is powerful advantage.
The use case, plugins for development tools, closely resembles
web-intents. The plugin API could be as simple as image exchange like
the memegen example (hence my interest in web-intents) or more
complicated exchanges requiring two way operations (hence my questions
about using postMessage).

But iframes cannot participate in web-intents so we are out of luck.

jjb

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Paul Kinlan <paulkinlan@google.com> wrote:
> why?
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:38 PM, John J Barton <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, thanks for the info. Sounds like we will have to look elsewhere
>> for a cross-domain application integration framework.
>> jjb
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Paul Kinlan <paulkinlan@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> > No.  The shim blocks all registrations from occurring inside an iframe.
>> >  I
>> > would expect the native implementation to do the same.  If the spec
>> > doesn't
>> > mention this, it should.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:55 PM, John J Barton
>> > <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Rachel Blum <groby@google.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Why wouldn't I race James to create WorldsMostAwesomeWebIntents
>> >> >> > page
>> >> >> > full of <intent> tags?
>> >> >> > Won't people be motivated to create ad supported lists? Won't
>> >> >> > users
>> >> >> > be
>> >> >> > bombarded with <intent> pages?
>> >> >> > I guess these are problems you'd love to have.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Let's keep in mind that (unless I misremember) intent tags have a
>> >> > same-origin restriction on the action path.
>> >> >
>> >> > So you'll actually need to do a bit of work beyond just collecting
>> >> > tags
>> >> > on
>> >> > your page - unless you choose to provide no-op intents.
>> >>
>> >> I guess a page full of
>> >> <iframe src=<page-with-intent-tag>>
>> >> wouid work, right?
>> >>
>> >> jjb
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Rachel
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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