Re: Web Activities: counter-proposal to Web Intents

2012-06-12 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
On 12/6/12 16:08 , Mounir Lamouri wrote: 2. Discovery: some consumers seem to be inclined to use Web Intents to discover other services. This is what Bryan Sullivan suggested for the Push Notification API. When the Intent is invoked no action would actually be taken, instead a URL is returned

Re: [admin] Mail List Policy, Usage, Etiquette, etc. Top-posting

2012-05-29 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
On 29/5/12 17:56 , Julian Reschke wrote: On 2012-05-29 16:53, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com mailto:art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: * Messages should be encoded usingplain text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text No, messages

Re: Installing web apps

2012-02-09 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
, but I hate relying on their judgment on privacy-related data. So I hope you are wrong, and we can find a workable model with finer grain. Best regards JC On 8/2/12 14:21 , Robin Berjon wrote: On Feb 8, 2012, at 01:06 , Jean-Claude Dufourd wrote: On 7/2/12 05:31 , Robin Berjon wrote: The first

Re: Installing web apps

2012-02-07 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
On 7/2/12 05:31 , Robin Berjon wrote: The first problem is that of the security model. A lot of smart people have tried to come up with a lot of different solutions here, often involving signatures, policies, intricate user interfaces, etc. I think that's all massively over-engineered. Once

Re: Installing web apps

2012-02-02 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
On 1/2/12 20:03 , Ian Hickson wrote: As a user when I install an app, I want to be able to give it access to a selection of: Providing access to these things when the app is installed is IMHO a net worse security model than granting access to these things implicitly when the feature is

Re: [widgets] How to divorce widgets-digsig from Elliptic Curve PAG?

2011-12-19 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
On 18/12/11 20:31 , Marcos Caceres wrote: On Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: Undated references (what you are suggesting) has the MAJOR PROBLEM that it makes it DIFFICULT/IMPOSSIBLE to do validation of any product that claims conformance to a standard – since

Re: [widgets] How to divorce widgets-digsig from Elliptic Curve PAG?

2011-12-19 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
. If the scope of one reference changes, there is a new risk. It is not only a problem of conformance testing. Your vision of fluid standards is completely unmanageable in practice. Regards JC On 19/12/11 12:33 , Marcos Caceres wrote: On Monday, December 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jean-Claude

Re: WebTV Use Cases (was Re: [DRAFT] Web Intents Task Force Charter)

2011-11-14 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
What is the exact problem with this document ? Best regards JC On 14/11/11 13:56 , Giuseppe Pascale wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:30:28 +0100, timeless timel...@gmail.com wrote: As sa note, that document is in violation of http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Translation/ The working language of the

Re: Widgets PAG seeks feedback on Widget Updates spec

2009-07-15 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
Marcos Caceres a écrit : From the spec ...an author can request that a widget asynchronously check if a widget has been updated [(i.e., that a new version of the widget package is available online)] via the widget.update() method, defined in the Widgets-API specification. This strategy also

Re: Widgets PAG seeks feedback on Widget Updates spec

2009-07-15 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
Dear Robin, Thanks for your email. Robin Berjon a écrit : There would then be a good case for the WG to spend some time on devising a proper workaround. Anyone sharing my opinion that the widget update feature will be consistenly implemented (even if optional) ? You seem to be mixing up

Re: [widgets] [preference element] question on the value attribute

2009-06-24 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
Robin Berjon a écrit : If by text content you mean actual text content, then there is no difference whatsoever between what can be stored in an attribute value and the text content (as per DOM 3 textContent) of an element — at least not semantically. JCD: I think I agree with you Robin, but

[widgets] [preference element] question on the value attribute

2009-06-23 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
We are wondering about the choice of an attribute to store the value of a preference. We would prefer to use the text content of the preference element for the value of the preference. Is there a good reason that we missed for using an attribute instead ? Thanks JC -- JC Dufourd Groupe

Re: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme... it's baaaack!

2009-05-27 Thread Jean-Claude Dufourd
Arve Bersvendsen a écrit : The main issue here, I think, is one of being proactive on this front. Given that absolute URIs are required for resolution, and that UA vendors will, unless specified, have to pick a URI scheme of their own, the situation may well arise where they have specified