On 8 Feb 2011, at 18:48, Marcos Caceres wrote: > 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 might also find this post useful: http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/web-apps-a-snapshot-of-the-standards-landscape/ > > 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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