On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, at 01:22, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> Yes, they want to use permissions instead.
Could you elaborate?
> > 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.
Why are they needed?
-- Mounir
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