Thanks for the highlights Fil. Makes for easier reading!
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: > Highlights w.r.t. Cordova: > > 1. Application manifest JSON (yay!) [1]: > > 2. There is an Application interface now in charge of handling: > - pause/resume/launch/terminate events > - readonly parameters such as install time, origin, parameters, update > state (downloading, installing), package size > - methods such as exit, hide, uninstall, update (interesting!) > - related to update, the spec calls for the update firing > asynchronously, reporting back progress events to the app. metaaaa > 3. App Management interface, which is deemed as a "privileged" API, to get > events about the (un)installation of other applications. > > Interesting "security" conclusions [2]: > > - scripts can only be loaded from inside the app package > - no inline scripts, no eval > - "Media (audio and video) can still be loaded from anywhere;" => this > should inform our media APIs once we get to the audit and finally > determine that the whitelist has no effect on media. This already applies > to images on the web. > - "Network connections can still be opened anywhere using data-centric > APIs like XMLHttpRequest or WebSocket." => implication here is that the > whitelist is, really, useless (which has been my opinion always :D ) > > Related, I will be attending the SysApps Face to Face in madrid [3] next > month. If anyone from the Cordova community has specific issues that they > would like to see addressed, let me know! > > [1] http://runtime.sysapps.org/#application-manifest > [2] http://runtime.sysapps.org/#csp-policy > [3] http://www.w3.org/wiki/System_Applications:_1st_F2F_Meeting_Agenda > > On 3/18/13 9:03 AM, "Giorgio Natili" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >It should be followed (I have had a quick look) but it depends what does > >it means from a development point of view. > >I mean that there is already a roadmap and that this draft should impact a > >lot, so is up to the contributors trying to explain us how much effort is > >required. > > > >Giorgio > > > >On 3/18/13 8:02 AM, "Brian LeRoux" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>Have a look: http://runtime.sysapps.org/ > >> > >>What do we think? > > > > > >
