Fwd: Re: Web Activities: counter-proposal to Web Intents

On 12/6/12 16:08 , Mounir Lamouri wrote:
>  2. Discovery: some consumers seem to be inclined to use Web Intents to
>  discover other services. This is what Bryan Sullivan suggested for the
>  Push Notification API. When the Intent is invoked no action would
>  actually be taken, instead a URL is returned and then it's up to the
>  page to communicate with that URL with the Web Intent API no longer
>  involved.
JCD: Web intents does not provide discovery, but more like a directory
service.
Your proposal also provides registration and a sort of directory service,
even if you do not provide a matching algorithm.
So your proposal is more or less at the same level of functionality than
web intents in this respect.

>  3. Communication: you can use Web Intents to simply create a channel of
>  communication between APP A and APP B: you can easily specify which
>  service should be used to handle the intent and then, you can
>  communicate with it.
JCD: Web Intents also provides some isolation between the client and the
service.
Are you providing this isolation too ?
If your APP A and B can later establish a communication channel, it
seems not.
Yet that is a very appealing feature.
Best regards
JC

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