Hi Joshua, Thanks for bringing this up. There was an effort in the past (involving David Flanagan and Mounir) to try to make web activities more consistent across Gaia and it's probably time we re-visited that. This work is tracked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796729 and this wiki page https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/System/Activities
My view is that the web activities you describe should all be of type "view", with the MIME type or URL specified. I'd be interested to know what Mounir & David think. We plan to work on a download manager which allows you to open downloaded files (around the 1.3 timeframe probably) so we're going to need to address this for that as well. Joshua, given that you've been looking at this recently it might be helpful if you could list your findings so far and highlight where you see inconsistencies. Thanks Ben On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Joshua Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working on a file browser for Firefox OS that is called > Prospector[0]. We are using Web Activities to open files with other > applications, which is expected behavior for any file browser. I am > constantly frustrated by the diversity of the current activities because > they mean that I have to custom-tailor my code for each file type and > application instead of just calling a broad "open" activity. > > It would be /so/ much easier for me, and for other developers of similar > apps to have a standardized Web Activity dedicated to opening files. Even > better would be to have standard properties for that activity (e.g. file > uri, mime, etc...) As for passing blobs by activities, that sounds like > it might hurt perf, and it is more convenient for the receiving app to > handle blob creation anyway. > > Also, a standardized open activity would allow there to be a settings > panel that allows the user to set the default app for each type of file in > place of prompting them every time. > > What are your thoughts? > > -- > Joshua Smith > > Links: > 0) > https://github.com/Codexa/**Prospector<https://github.com/Codexa/Prospector> > ______________________________**_________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-b2g<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g> > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
