Re: Adding Web Intents to the Webapps WG deliverables

+Paul Kinlan, Greg Billock - from Google team.
+Mike Hanson, Ben Adida - from Mozilla team.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:

> Should Paul Kinlan be Cc'd on this? His concept work is helpful.
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> On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
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> > Why not just improve both navigator.registerContentHandler and
> > navigator.registerProtocolHandler?
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> > 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)?
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> > 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?
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> > Why are the verbs URLs?
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> > Why are some verbs hard-coded into the API?
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> > How are types matched?
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> > --
> > Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
> > http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
> > Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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