Re: Web Payments Community Group Browser API Polyfill Released

Very interesting! Thank you.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:56 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> A browser polyfill for the Web Payments Community Group Browser API has
> been released and there is a live demo here (feel free to click through
> it, starting at step #1):
>
> https://web-payments.io/
>
> The polyfill provides a *very rough cut* of the Web Payments Browser API
> in most modern browsers, which supports:
>
>  * Registration of payment applications
>  * Requesting a payment
>  * Acknowledging a payment request
>
> You can read about the API (and peruse the source) here:
>
> https://github.com/digitalbazaar/payment-polyfill#documentation
>
> The spec for the API can be found here:
>
> http://wicg.github.io/web-payments-browser-api/
>
> This is an experimental preview and it'll change based on
> consensus-based decisions made in the Web Payments WG. You will see
> developer debug output on each page - this is by design, so that it's
> easier to walk developers (and the WG) through the spec and the demo.
>
> Things that we still need to do:
>
> * Add Bitcoin payment application (as well as other payment apps)
> * Add many more flow examples
>   * https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/Flows#flows-to-be-analysed
>
> This is a demonstration that the Web Payments CG's Browser API does work
> in practice, is polyfill-able (including payment app registration), and
> (unlike the Google/Microsoft proposal) can be implemented using simple
> messages (plain 'ol Javascript objects) and a non-event,
> non-state-machine based interface.
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice
> https://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/
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