Re: Packaging on the Web

Anne,

The HTML can be part of the package. You just need to discover the package somehow. Having the HTML that you request point to the package that it is part of was the only method that looked viable to me (I documented the other possibilities and why I don’t think they work). Can you think of an alternative method of discovery?

It’s also possible to point directly to the package, but that’s only going to be a useful thing to do if you know that the client is package-aware. Again, I’ve tried to document the discussions that we’ve had about resolving URLs to point both at a package *and* at the file you want to point to in a backwards-compatible way. I couldn’t see a way to make that model work. Have I missed something?

I hadn’t seen the Resource Packages work. I think it’s pretty similar in approach, except that it’s designed around additional resources for an HTML page and doesn’t specify a fixed type for the packages. The “Resource Package Specification” that the pointer you gave links to doesn’t exist any more, so I guess it didn’t go anywhere? Do you know why? Perhaps it was just too early to be polyfillable?

Jeni
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From: Anne van Kesteren annevk@annevk.nl
Reply: Anne van Kesteren annevk@annevk.nl
Date: 3 February 2014 at 10:43:46
To: Jeni Tennison jeni@jenitennison.com
Subject:  Re: Packaging on the Web

>  
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jeni Tennison  
> wrote:
> > With the protocol that I’m suggesting, you do need to get hold  
> of that initial HTML to work out where the package is in the first  
> place, but I couldn’t work out an alternative mechanism for that.  
>  
> So how is this different from
> http://limi.net/articles/resource-packages/ then? An important  
> part of
> the original proposal was to be able to have the HTML be part of  
> the
> package, similar to how apps are packaged, which is why we ended  
> up
> needing changes at the URL level.
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Received on Monday, 3 February 2014 14:38:24 UTC