Re: bookmarks and Weave Re: timeless' review and my responses so far

Think of it from an architecture perspective: The user uses the UA to interact with web pages.  Those web pages execute JavaScript and talk to APIs in the client.  Our requirements are on those APIs.

Now, the UA does all kinds of things behind the user's back -- like sending HTTP or HTTPS requests to a search engine when you type into the search box (or the address bar), or like sending HTTP requests to a location provider when you click on "locate me".  In this case, you aren't really using HTTP (or HTTPS) to interact with a Web server -- you're simply using it as a transport to talk to some part of the UA functionality that has been outsourced into the cloud.

Does this help?
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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>







On 2 Apr 2010, at 14:17, Mary Ellen Zurko wrote:

> > From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
> > 
> > On 26 Mar 2010, at 21:40, Mary Ellen Zurko wrote:
> > 
> > > > This is annoying. If I use http://delicious.com/orGoogle to save my
> > > > bookmarks as a set, why shouldn't I allow them to provide a way to add
> > > > pages I'm not currently at? Obviously I'd have to design it so that
> > > > the user can review the content in some safe manner, but....
> > > > 
> > > > A competitor (Firefox for Mobile) offers an API, "Weave", which allows
> > > > a web server (weave) to add URIs to the user's bookmark collection. We
> > > > have already received customer requests demanding this feature. In
> > > > reality, Weave doesn't quite act as web content, however, I don't
> > > > think users care about the distinction.
> > > 
> > > I believe Tyler had provided the attack pointer for this one. 
> > Anyone have it handy? 
> > 
> > Why would Weave even be subject to this spec?  It's (for our 
> > purposes) an implementation detail of the browser.  Not our business
> > whether it uses HTTP or something else.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Weave is a web server but it's also an implementation detail of a browser? Sorry, I'm not following. 
>

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