Re: Adding Web Intents to the Webapps WG deliverables

Should Paul Kinlan be Cc'd on this? His concept work is helpful.



On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> 
> Why not just improve both navigator.registerContentHandler and 
> navigator.registerProtocolHandler?
> 
> In particular, why are intents registered via a new HTML element rather 
> than an API? How do you unregister? How do you determine if the intent was 
> registered or not? How do you conditionally register (e.g. once the user 
> has paid for the service)?
> 
> How does an already-open page get to handle an action? e.g. say GMail 
> wants to handle the "share" intent, and the user already has GMail open, 
> and the user clicks a "share" button on Flickr. How does the existing 
> GMail instance get the notification?
> 
> Why are the verbs URLs?
> 
> Why are some verbs hard-coded into the API?
> 
> How are types matched?
> 
> -- 
> Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
> http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
> Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
> 

Received on Tuesday, 20 September 2011 04:25:54 UTC