On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Eric-Sebastien Lachance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ben... > > I strongly hope that I'm not the first one to have thought of this, > because if I am that should merit me a job at Google (got a > "Brainstormer" position open?) :P > > Nah, seriously though, if any online application is to become a > replacement for a local one (if Docs wants to replace Word, GMail > replace Outlook) then in a sense you have no choice but to mimic not > only the software functionality, but the OS functionality. Having a > file association to a software is a behavior that people are just used > to. > > In order to offer a service for the "masses", you have to think like > the masses, not like geeks!
I think this is a good idea; there are various ways that could be implemented. e.g. we could create a blob with the file, and have an additional method to the filepicker api that would returns that blob (so webapps upon starting could call a getParameter() method or something like that). As Ben said, what you can do right now if you simply want "documents" on your desktop (vs opening existing file types) for your webapp, you should be able to create shortcuts using the desktop api (then it's just a matter for your webapp to create shortcuts with url containing the document id so that it can present it to the user). -- Nicolas Roard Google UK London
