Re: Widgets & ApplicationCache (was: Standards for Web applications on mobile devices: August 2011 updates)

On 16 Sep 2011, at 13:55, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
> 
>> IMO, keeping them together will lead to confusion. The use cases are
>> different: a widget can embed content that uses ApplicationCache, as
>> well as load in proprietary APIs (e.g., WAC).
> 
> Surely a Web-applicationcached app could also load proprietary APIs. And
> an application cache could also have a widget as part of its list of
> cacheable resources.
> 
>> It can be used for defining other classes of applications and formats
>> (e.g., Opera Extensions).
> 
> I can also imagine using ApplicationCache to do that.

I can imagine using all kinds of other things to do that. 

The point is, I don't want to, I want to use one standard way to do it along with all other companies in the space so we have a market, not a whole bunch of non-interoperating silos, and have a consistent message for users.

I don't really understand what the point is of putting these things together. Other than to annoy Marcos of course :)

> 
> Widgets and ApplicationCache differ in some ways (e.g. the security
> model of widgets is different, widgets currently don't have an origin,
> etc), but I still don't see how they would fundamentally address
> different use cases.
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
> 

Received on Friday, 16 September 2011 16:29:37 UTC