Re: Draft of Second Screen Presentation Working Group Charter available (was: Heads-Up: Plan for Working Group on Second Screen Presentation)

On 21 May 2014, at 22:14, Mark Scott <markdavidscott@google.com> wrote:

> An option proposed in MarkF's E-mail was to support an alternative URL scheme (e.g. "dial://youtube/...").  This requires less mapping logic to be built into the UA, and seems worth considering.  I don't think we assumed that the Presentation API would define or mandate support for any particular scheme, just that it doesn't prevent UAs from implementing such schemes.

My worry is, if we allow arbitrary schemes, interop testing becomes impossible. That’s a mandatory step in the standardization process (see “Test suite”):

  http://webscreens.github.io/charter/#other-deliverables

Examples of features that have bad interop record include <object>, <embed>, <applet>, and friends. Try pages with such content on your mobile device of choice, and generally you’ll feel sad.

Thanks,

-Anssi

Received on Wednesday, 28 May 2014 08:59:23 UTC