On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:52 AM, JOSE MANUEL CANTERA FONSECA <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that you want to follow the 'Widget Path' with their cons and > their pros ... Some questions along the lines ... > > A/ Does this proposal mean that we can get rid of AppCache for trusted / > certified content? That would be really helpful to drop the current make > install-gaia hacks to feed the AppCache
Yes. A patch to do this is already in progress. > B/ It seems that your proposal is going to follow the Widget Path or a > similar one. Thus, Do you think it could be a good idea to rescue the > Widget Packaging Format (.zip), signatures, etc. and change it only by > including the OWA JSON stuff? I would not like to create yet another > packaging format and signature for apps, thus I would recommend to rely on > an existing one, standard or de-facto standard. All we need here is zip file with two additional pieces of data: * A manifest. Here we want to use the OWA JSON manifest file we already have defined. So can't reuse widgets for this. * A signature. My perception was that the way that widgets sign packages is much too complicated and that we can do something simpler. Hence I don't think there's much we can reuse from widgets. I do agree it would be great to reuse something existing though. But as mentioned in my original email, I want to discuss that in separate threads. > C/ The app URL scheme seems to be the same as the Widget URI Scheme and I > think it should be opaque to the app developer. Having said that, I don't > know why we are inventing a new one ... I'm not a fan of the way that widgets use uuids rather than real domains. Also, it seems confusing to use the widget scheme if we aren't using any other aspects of widgets. > D/ The Widget Update spec can serve as a point of inspiration on how to > discover and download updates. I would also recommend not to invent > anything new. We should define something that could be standardized in the > future or base it in an existing standard. Again, as mentioned in my original email, I'd like to keep update protocol discussions out of this thread. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
