- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:48:54 +0100
- To: unhosted <unhosted@googlegroups.com>, public-webappstore@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhL49H_nNeiuKYaR1kEn3dZc9qoS2JoU9=HFVYDa=x7WMQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10 November 2012 17:37, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org> wrote: > Hi! > > i've changed the manifest format on https://apps.unhosted.org/ to be > more like the Mozilla one. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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.)... > > > Cheers! > Michiel > > -- > > > >
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