- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:07:06 +0100
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
Hey Jeni,
On Jan 23, 2012, at 23:46 , Jeni Tennison wrote:
> Re-raising Graham Klyne's point: does anyone know how the web+ URI schemes are going to fit with the Web Intents work which I believe are planned to be part of HTML.next? They address basically the same goals, but with different mechanisms; the Web Intents FAQ [1] makes some comparisons.
I'd answer you question were it not that it is currently being actively discussed in the Web Intents Task Force. See the thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-intents/2012Jan/thread.html#msg24
While I'm still reserving final judgement based on inputs to the discussion, my current idea is that conflating RPH and WI doesn't fly:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-intents/2012Jan/0052.html
My sense is that these two things are more different than people seem to think they are. RPH is "I can handle this type of URI", WI is a dual system consisting of "I can handle these operations on these types of objects" and "Give me a service that can perform this action on that object".
> Are we likely to end up with both being supported within browsers and developers having to choose which to use?
I don't think so. At this point no one has shown that the two are equivalent, and examples attempting to prove that they are use schemes like "web+imageedit" (as in web+imageedit:example.org/unicorn.png) which I'm thinking ought to make anyone who cares about web architecture scream rather loudly :)
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