Re: FW: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme]

Felix Sasaki wrote 

>Forwarded since this did not reach the www-international list.
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>Felix
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>De: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@thomsonreuters.com>
>A: WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
>Sujet: [Moderator Action] FW: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme
>Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:45:56 +0000
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>fyi
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] On Behalf
>Of Marcos Caceres
>Sent: 23 May 2008 06:57
>To: www-tag@w3.org; WAF WG (public)
>Cc: Jon Ferraiolo
>Subject: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme
>
>
>Dear TAG,
>The WAF working group is seeking advice on the creation of a Widget
>URI scheme. The proposal is to introduce a URI scheme that is used
>internally by widgets at runtime. Amongst other things, the primary
>purpose is to stop implementations from having to use file:// or some
>arbitrary URI scheme for addressing resources inside a widget package.

Is this similar to the chrome: uri scheme used by the gecko software 
of Mozilla compagny? (public doc in 
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL_Tutorial:The_Chrome_URL ). 

>For the benefit of those who have not read the widget spec [1], a
>widget resource is essentially a Zip file. Authors, obviously, store
>their resources (images, HTML files, etc) inside the Zip file and then
>address those resources using either relative or absolute paths (eg
>"/images/bg.gif", etc).
>
>At runtime, a user agent resolves the paths to resources inside the
>widget package using the widget URI scheme.
>
>This is our strawman proposal:
>
>widget-URI      = "widget:" "//" UUID "/" zip-rel-path
>zip-rel-path     = [ *localized-folder ] [ *folder ] [ filename ] /
>                   [localized-folder] [ *folder] / [ folder ]
>localized-folder = language-tag delimiter
>folder           = filename delimiter
>delimiter        = U+002F
>filename         = 1*254( *basename [file-extension] )
>basename         = allowed-chars
>file-extension   = "." 1*allowed-chars
>allowed-chars    = cp437 / utf8-range
>utf8-chars       = ascii-range / U+0080 and beyond
>cp437-chars      = ascii-range / x80-FF;
>ascii-chars      = ALPHA / DIGIT / SP / "$" / "%" / "'" / "-" / "_" /
>"@"
>                    / "~" / "`" / "!" / "(" / ")" / "^" / "#" / "&" /
>"+"
>                    / "," / "." / "=" / "[" / "]"
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>Language-tag is defined in RFC4646 (BCP47). UUID (Universally Unique
>IDentifier) is defined in rfc4122. The intention of using UUIDs (or
>some random number) is to identify the current running instance of a
>widget when multiple instances are running simultaneously. Authors
>would not be able to address other widgets via this scheme (in fact,
>there should be no reason at all for authors to use this scheme).
>
>Within WAF, concerns have been raised about using UUIDs as the
>identifier and arguments have been made that UUID should be replaced
>by some random number generated internally by a widget engine (ie.
>leave the choice of random number sequence as an implementation
>detail. Eg hashing the name of the widget and time of download).
>However, not all members are comfortable with leaving the generation
>of random number sequence to implementations as it could introduce
>issues.
>
>It has also been proposed that, instead of using "widget://", we use
>"zip://" to create a more generic addressing mechanism for Zip files
>[2].
>
>Any thoughts, comments, or guidance would be appreciated.
>
>Kind regards,
>Marcos
>
>[1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/
>[2]
>-- 
>Marcos Caceres
>http://datadriven.com.au

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