Hi Rich, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Rich Tibbett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Marcos Caceres <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> The current widget URI spec does not work with XHR and hence can't be >> used with popular JS libraries like JQuery Mobile. This makes the URI >> scheme basically useless for a massive number of use cases. > > Oops :) > >> >> To fix it, the widget URI spec needs to respond with HTTP responses >> when a URI is dereferenced... similar to what blob:// does: >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/#processingModel > > Are there are any plans to undertake a Provisional (or Permanent) URI > Scheme Registration for the widget URI? [1] The guidelines and > procedures of that process seem to form a handy general checklist for > minting URI schemes and should be capable of catching idiosyncrasies > such as this. > > Perhaps we should get the widget URI proposal peer reviewed by the W3C > URI IG [2] and, perhaps, the IETF HTTP WG [3] before publication also. > I mention this since you mention the blob URI scheme. That has > recently been making the rounds on both of the listservs mentioned > above resulting in some interesting discussions.
Thanks for the links. Yes, we have done all that. -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
