- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:51:56 -0800
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>, public-device-apis@w3.org
On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:21:06 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak > <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Doug Schepers wrote: >>>> >>>> Please send in use cases, requirements, concerns, and concrete >>>> suggestions about the general topic (regardless of your opinion >>>> about my >>>> suggestion). >>> >>> Some use cases: >>> >>> * Ability to manage attachments in Web-based mail clients, both >>> receiving and sending >>> * Ability to write a Web-based mail client that uses mbox files or >>> the >>> Maildir format locally >>> * Ability to write a Web-based photo management application that >>> handles >>> the user's photos on the user's computer >>> * Ability to expose audio files to native media players >>> * Ability to write a Web-based media player that indexes the >>> user's media >> >> These are good use cases. > > I would like to expand them a little, in each case making it > possible to use existing content, or expose content directly to the > user enabling them to change the software they use, or even use > multiple tools on the same content - a web app one day, a different > one next week, a piece of shrink-wrap software from time to time. I'm having trouble following. Could you give more specific examples of what you have in mind? Does your expansion imply new requirements, on top of either Ian's list or my list? > And add: > > * A document management system as hybrid web app, allowing file- > based access to the documents as well. I don't exactly follow this either. By "hybrid web app", do you mean something running locally with some portion of native code doing part of the job? Assuming that is what you mean: I think hybrid Web apps are extremely interesting (and something Apple supports and encourages on Mac OS X and iPhone OS), but they should not be used the sole use case for any API that we wish to expose to public Web content. The reason is that on the one hand, hybrid Web apps are not constrained by the Web security model, and on the other hand, they are always free to break out of the sandbox with native code, or capabilities specific to a particular runtime. For functionality we expose to the Web, there should be at least some justifying use cases that are pure Web apps. Regards, Maciej
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