Re: Two questions about the Web Intents.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Gaowenmei <gaowenmei@huawei.com> wrote:

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> “However it's important to keep in mind that the <intent> tag causes a
> web page to be registered as an intent service once the user visits the
> page, so in essence the user does have a way to "manually add" a service.
>  It stretches the definition of 'manually' though, as <intent> tag
> registration is designed tob”****
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> --Does it have the same meaning as the first paragraph of section 4 in web
> intents spec?****
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> “When the User Agent loads a page with registration markup, it *should* allow
> the user to configure that page as a web intents service. The details of
> this process is left up to the User Agent. The model is that the page
> advises of the ability to handle intents, and the User Agent may remember
> that. The User Agent *must not* deliver an intent to a Service discovered
> in this way before the user has made a specific action allowing it.”****
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Yes, "registration markup" in this text means the <intent> tag (if I
understand your question correctly).  Perhaps we should make this
association more explicit.  I'm not a fan of the last sentence, however.
 I'll start a separate thread about that.

Thanks,
James


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> Best Regards****
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> Gao Wenmei****
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> *发件人:* jhawkins@google.com [mailto:jhawkins@google.com] *代表 *James Hawkins
> *发送时间:* 2012年6月12日 01:30
> *收件人:* Paul Kinlan
> *抄送:* Gaowenmei; public-web-intents@w3.org
> *主题:* Re: Two questions about the Web Intents.****
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Paul Kinlan <paulkinlan@google.com>
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> Some comments inline.****
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Gaowenmei <gaowenmei@huawei.com> wrote:**
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> Hello，everyone:****
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> I am a newcomer here. These days I was studying the web intents spec and
> felt great interest in this technology. Now I have some small questions,
> and hope someone can help me to clarify the confusion.****
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> 1) When we click a button in the client page and trigger the
> "startActivity()", UA will pop up a intent list and we will see some
> suggestions there. I am wondering where are the suggestions from? Does the
> UA search the intent services in real time? (for example, Chrome will
> search the suitable intent services from the Chrome web app store?)****
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> The current implementation in Chrome understands the action and the data
> type so it can query the Chrome webstore to get a list of suitable apps.
>  Claes and others on this list are working on the UPNP discovery for
> external networked services that support the same actions on data.****
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> The actual method of suggestions is not too important once you realise
> that we have these two key pieces of information we can use to discover
> compatible services.  The UA may choose to cache service suggestions, query
> a service, or provide no suggestions at all.****
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> 2) Can the user manually add a URL to the popup intent list as a intent
> service page? Thus, the user can add some intent service pages which are
> found by himself or forwarded by his friends. This will be very useful for
> users.****
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> Not quite, the developer will be able to specify their own suggestions in
> the "suggestions" attribute of the Intent constructor object.  With the
> current implementation in Chrome you would ask the user to install the app
> from the store.****
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> However it's important to keep in mind that the <intent> tag causes a web
> page to be registered as an intent service once the user visits the page,
> so in essence the user does have a way to "manually add" a service.  It
> stretches the definition of 'manually' though, as <intent> tag registration
> is designed tob ****
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> Thanks,****
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> James****
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