On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 21:35 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > > > == GNOME Web Platform == > > There is no GNOME web platform. There are no new libraries being > proposed for use by all GNOME web modules. It feels way too early to > try to make those sorts of decisions. We need another module or two > before we discover what can and should be shared. > > I will say that even if we end up with an Online Desktopish goal, we > should not strive for one big monster web app. I think it makes > sense to focus on smaller, single-purpose web apps with sensible > integration points. > > For example, we could have a Mugshot-like "identity" app for Teh > Social, and have it aggregate info from apps like Snowy. We could tie > apps together with existing standards like OpenID and OAuth. We could > come up with conventions for building RESTful APIs, standardize on > JSON, etc etc. We could build standard GTK+ widgets for > authenticating with GNOME web services. Whatever makes sense to make > integration between the GNOME desktop and the GNOME web easy on > developers and users. > yes, maybe it would make sense to have a generic sync API, so that the same API and server could be used for syncing notes, contacts, calendar events, etc. I don't think that would make a "monster" app, if it's just a syncing server implementing a single API, wouldn't it?
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