Rich,

I don't have any specific links to send you yet on the topic of local data 
storage for AccessForAll preferences, but here are a few things related to the 
topic:

* UI Options, an Infusion component that enables users to specify their styling 
and navigation preferences, will be expanded to include a variety of needs and 
preferences. Media enhancement, documentation transformation, layout and 
simplification, and more. We currently store these preferences in a rough JSON 
format.The plan in the new year is to redesign UI Options and create a more 
comprehensive JSON binding for AccessForAll, suitable for storage anywhere, 
including locally or in the cloud.

Overview page: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/User+Interface+Options
Demo: http://fluidproject.org/releases/1.3/demos/uiOptions/demo.html

* Infusion mobile themes for Android and iPhone: these were created as part of 
our work on Fluid Engage, and enable users to quickly and easily use the Fluid 
Skinning System with WebKit-based mobile devices. Our plan for the FLOE Project 
is to introduce some new client and server-side infrastructure that will 
automatically deliver the correct theme based on device type or user preference 
(as expressed by the user in UI Options).

Overview: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Mobile+FSS
Demo (try this with WebKit): 
http://fluidproject.org/releases/1.3/demos/fss/mobile/demo.html

In the new year, Antranig and the UI Options team are planning to start work on 
cloud-based user preferences storage. The plan is to create a reference 
implementation of a user preferences server integrated with OpenID. I know that 
you have some concerns about OpenID, but I think it offers the only reasonable 
starting place for being able to demonstrate widely-supported cloud based user 
authentication. From there, we can talk further about how we might want to 
production-harden the implementation.

As you probably know, HTML 5 local data storage currently has no facility for 
sharing data across domains. This will ultimately have to be addressed in the 
spec and browser vendors will need to implement it. In the meantime, the 
simplest approach for pursuing a reference implementation of this would be a 
browser-based extension using Jetpack on Firefox or WebKit's extension 
mechanism. Writing an extension first should allow us to work out the main 
architectural issues and then share back with the HTML 5 committee.

Fluid's goal in the new year, as part of the FLOE Project, is to do the 
following:

1. Improve the Fluid Skinning System to enable a variety of production-level 
document transformations
2. Update UI Options to improve the user experience and introduce a number of 
new user preferences that go beyond just styling
3. Look at cloud and browser-based preferences storage and integration
4. Continue evolving our framework to support end user personalizable user 
interfaces with features such as Infusion's Inversion of Control framework.
5. Integrate these tools and new components with mainstream authoring tools 
such as MediaWiki and Open Educational Resource (OER) platforms

We're quite keen to work with you on any of this and more.

Hope this helps,

Colin

On 2010-12-23, at 1:29 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

> Hi Colin,
> 
> Can you point me to the mobile browser work on personalization that we 
> discussed on the Fluid site? I want to start looking at A4A Integration 
> through HTML 5 local data storage across domains. Last we spoke you mentioned 
> that the effort was in the design phase.
> 
> AfA v3 first public working draft should go out January or February.
> 
> I want to start look at this for our mobile IBM accessibility strategy and of 
> course GPII. It is time to start moving the ball. I need to look at Open 
> Social too.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> CTO Accessibility Software Group
> 
> <graycol.gif>Colin Clark ---12/22/2010 05:20:46 PM---Hey all, We're in the 
> home stretch for the Infusion 1.3 release. Here's what's left to do:
> 
> From: Colin Clark <[email protected]>
> To:   Fluid Work <[email protected]>
> Cc:   "Michelle D'Souza" <[email protected]>
> Date: 12/22/2010 05:20 PM
> Subject:      1.3 release next steps
> Sent by:      [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> We're in the home stretch for the Infusion 1.3 release. Here's what's left to 
> do:
> 
> 1. Generate the release packages from the official 1.3 tag
> 2. Test them
> 3. Post them to the Web site
> 4. Update demo links and component progress indicators where necessary
> 5. Tag and deploy the Infusion Builder
> 6. Ensure the Builder is pointing to the official tagged version of Infusion
> 7. Test the Builder
> 8. Send out the announcement
> 9. Update the News section of the web site
> 10. Tweet about it
> 11. Go home for the holidays
> 
> It sounds like a long list, but these are all relatively simple tasks, 
> especially if we share them.
> 
> Colin
> 
> ---
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> Technical Lead, Fluid Project
> http://fluidproject.org
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