- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:40:23 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> writes: > A couple of us at Mozilla have been trying to figure out how to revive > activities/intents for the web. Both work relatively well in closed > environments such as Firefox OS and Android, but seem harder to deploy > in a generic way on the web. > > What we've been looking at instead is solving a smaller use case. A > Sharing API to start and then hopefully reuse the building blocks for > other features that need to be liberated. > > https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Sharing/API has a sketch for what a very > minimal Sharing API could look like. > > Our thinking is that something like the overlay browsing context could > be reused to make e.g. <input type=file> or "save as" extensible going > forward. > > However, admittedly it still doesn't really click. It feels a bit too > much like e.g. the various search extensions browsers offer. Too much > work for little return. Furthermore, freeing the web somehow from > closely knitted silos seems like a worthwhile goal, but is often > counter to what those silos are interested in. So it might be that > we're still not quite there yet, thoughts appreciated. I would actually love it if I got something more like the search extensions, as they do work unobtrusively and without scripting. I also find creating OpenSearch XML easier than scripting stuff. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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