- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:02:26 +0200
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
IMO, the following conformance requirement needs to be relaxed to a SHOULD. [[ # ta-FDGQBROtzW When acquiring a potential Zip archive that has not been labeled with a media type (e.g., from a file system), a user agent must attempt to process the resource regardless of the file extension (including situations when the file extension is absent) by applying the rule for determining if a potential Zip archive is a Zip archive. If the rule for determining if a potential Zip archive is a Zip archive return true, proceed to Step 2. Otherwise, if an error was returned, the user agent must treat the potential Zip archive as an invalid widget package. ]] In practice widget managers generally just scan the SD card for '*.wgt' files. Imposing a MUST here is overzealous as we should not expect applications or file systems to be checking file type associations at the byte level (unless they really want to). The requirement was originally written to cover the drag-and-drop use case on a desktop computer, and didn't really take into consideration the user experience on a mobile device. No user agents are harmed by relaxing this requirement to a SHOULD; and relaxing it means that a larger number of mobile-device-based user agents can become compliant to P&C. I have made the change in the spec. If anyone has an objection, please let me know by the before the 07 June. Kind regards, Marcos -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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