On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 3:17:36 PM UTC+1, Benjamin Francis wrote:
> On 11 February 2015 at 05:02, Anders Rundgren <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Although it is cool standardizing interfaces to various device resources, it
> comes at a price in terms of slowness and inflexibility.
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> Recently Google publicly declared that they were not going to continue with
> SysApps which IMO spelled death of this effort.
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> 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.
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> For context, this was the actual email from Mounir at Google
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sysapps/2014Dec/0000.html
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> 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.
Yes, they want to use permissions instead.
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> I don't agree that an App Store is required to add device APIs to the web.
No, but packaged ("trusted"?) apps won't fly without an App Store.
Anders
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