On 11 February 2015 at 05:02, Anders Rundgren <[email protected] > wrote:
> Although it is cool standardizing interfaces to various device resources, > it comes at a price in terms of slowness and inflexibility. > > Recently Google publicly declared that they were not going to continue > with SysApps which IMO spelled death of this effort. > > Since Apps using these APIs must be trusted they will need to be supplied > from a trusted source which means an "AppStore" and then most of the > concept is more like a complex version of http://cordova.apache.org/ at > least from a developer point-of-view. > For context, this was the actual email from Mounir at Google https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sysapps/2014Dec/0000.html He's saying that Google is still very much involved in working on these types of APIs, but they don't think the System Applications Working Group is the right place to do that because it was too focused on packaged apps. Which I agree with. I don't agree that an App Store is required to add device APIs to the web.
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