On Friday, September 23, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Marcos Caceres > <marcosscace...@gmail.com (mailto:marcosscace...@gmail.com)> wrote: > Well, this is progress, but it seems the only difference now between > widget: and http: is the authority. And if that's the case, then > instead of (from your example); > > widget://c13c6f30-ce25-11e0-9572-0800200c9a66/index.html > > why not go with this? > > http://c13c6f30-ce25-11e0-9572-0800200c9a66.localhost/index.html That might totally work:) The spec just needs to sandbox the request so apps don't request resources from each other (i.e., I just hope it's not hard to implement a kind of restricted-local-http server that widget:// tries to be… hopefully you get what I mean here: requests/response is instance specific, except where this could be used with postMessage… Also, I was worried about muddying-up the two "protocols", even if they are both http. Another minor nit is that some runtimes already implement widget:// … but then again, they also implement http, so it might all be ok. Might have a crack at trying to implement this on Android.