Re: Home discovery over Web Intents: current status and next Steps

Just to note that at the F2F, we talked about how to deal with an
expanding number of optional parameters for the Intent constructor, and
ended up agreeing that an object literal was the way to go. Josh should
have the minutes ready soon, and I am looking forward to an updated
proposal from James et al. covering this.

Note that this also covers the message channel, with the ports being
treated as part of the object literal passed to the Intent constructor.
For simple cases, James and Greg thought it would be convenient to
continue to support the simpler arguments for the constructor, as an
alternative to using the object literal.

This raises the question of when the message channel is created: at the
time the Intent constructor is called, or when starting the activity, or
by the service itself, with the ports passed back to the web app handler
as supplied to the start activity method.

Finally, Ian Hickson earlier proposed a simplication to web intents.
James/Greg spoke with him and report that Ian is warming to the current
proposal, especially in view of the number of parameters that may need
to be passed for requesting and initiating the service. I very much look
forward to Ian's review of the revised proposal.

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Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

Received on Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:07:21 UTC