Re: [unhosted] apps.unhosted.org manifest format & technology-independent permissions

On 10 November 2012 17:37, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org> wrote:

> Hi!
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> i've changed the manifest format on https://apps.unhosted.org/ to be
> more like the Mozilla one.
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> I did add an 'origin' field because that makes it easier to mirror the
> manifest. in Mozilla's format, the authorative manifest file should be
> hosted on the app's origin.
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> For now, i'm using apps.unhosted.org as a source for the 'install
> default apps' button in owncloud. For now, the manifests are only
> available there, but the idea is that the respective app developers
> would also start hosting their apps on their app origin. All of that
> is a bit futile though if it's a http origin instead of https.
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> One interesting point that came up is that I decided to put the
> permission scopes of remotestorage modules at the same level as those
> of device functionality exposed by Firefox OS.
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> So "this app wants access to your calendar" then becomes a
> technology-independent statement. That could then be the device
> calendar (via Firefox OS), or the remotestorage calendar (via
> remoteStorage.calendar).
>
> There are three modules that probably overlap with the permission
> scopes that Mozilla are using so far: contacts, calendar, and
> webapps-manage. I'm still calling the apps module 'apps' and not
> 'webapps-manage' for now, because we said we don't want to use module
> names with hyphens in them. So we have to see how that works out.
>
> I'm curious what other people think of this, particularly people from
> 5apps and Surfnet, because they're both already working with app
> manifest formats.
>

Looks cool!

CC'ing public-webappstore group as they were looking at some similar things
(manifests etc.)...


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> Cheers!
> Michiel
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