- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:48:32 +0000
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- CC: nathan@webr3.org, "Nilsson, Claes1" <Claes1.Nilsson@sonyericsson.com>, "Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com" <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>, "public-device-apis@w3.org" <public-device-apis@w3.org>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Peter Dekkers <peter@jbaron.com>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
Hi Tim, In [1], it sounds to me like you are after W3C Widgets [2]; we have almost finished standardizing them so no need to wait. You can play with them today in Opera [3] and a bunch of other great runtimes [4]. Kind regards, Marcos [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2011Feb/0078.html [2] http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/ [3] http://www.opera.com/download/ [4] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WidgetImplementation On 2/8/11 6:37 PM, Nathan wrote: > Nathan wrote: >> Marcos Caceres wrote: >>> On 9/16/10 6:10 PM, Nathan wrote: >>>> Marcos Caceres wrote: >>>>> As above. I thought that was what we (Web Apps WG - Widgets) have been >>>>> doing for the last 5 years? >>>> >>>> Maybe I've missed part of the specifications - are you telling me >>>> that I >>>> can package up an HTML,CSS,JS based application as per the widgets >>>> specification, include a WARP, Digital Signature, set the view-mode to >>>> windowed and that this will run as is, in the main browser context of >>>> the main browser vendors (Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, IE etc)? >>> >>> Ah! ok. I get it now. No, that won't work right now (actually, that's >>> how we run them in our development environment for testing purposes >>> :) ). But that is trivial and no one has really asked for that. >> >> Good to know, and you can consider me as asking for it! >> >>> I'm still a bit lost as to what the use case is? > > following up, see "Web Apps -- requirements for installation and > management" from TimBL: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2011Feb/0078.html > > Best, > > Nathan -- Marcos Caceres Opera Software
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