Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Daniel Buchner wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Marcos Caceres (mailto:w...@marcosc.com)> wrote: > > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Daniel Buchner wrote: > > > > > To clarify, I am proposing that we make a simple app manifest en

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: > So, I guess the thing would be to try to quickly dig up a few of the old > sites that are using view mode media feature targeted at presto and see if > they have a separate page or if they use the same page. That should at least >

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Buchner
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Daniel Buchner wrote: > > > To clarify, I am proposing that we make a simple app manifest entry the > only requirement for widget declaration: widget: { launch_path: ... }. The > issue with viewMode (

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 2:29 PM, JC Verdié wrote: > > > > Right, but this is a platform/system issue (how events traverse through the > > system). This was outside the scope of the work. > > Agreed. But it's been a hurdle and I don't know how many companies just > gave up about widge

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread JC Verdié
Marcos Caceres wrote: On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, JC Verdié wrote: Hi Marcos, Obviously as you point out, digsig were a nightmare. May be it was us, but the spec was not really straightforward to implement and we found it difficult. As lead Editor, I'm really very sorry about t

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, JC Verdié wrote: > Hi Marcos, > > Obviously as you point out, digsig were a nightmare. May be it was us, > but the spec was not really straightforward to implement and we found it > difficult. As lead Editor, I'm really very sorry about this - I stri

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread JC Verdié
Hi Marcos, Marcos Caceres wrote: On Monday, July 22, 2013 at 9:16 AM, JC Verdié wrote: Hi Daniel While widgets were (unfortunately) not widely adopted, a few companies (including mine) are using it and it does the job for many simple issues. It's true that the complexity of the spec vs the s

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:44:56 +0200, Marcos Caceres wrote: On Monday, July 22, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Daniel Buchner wrote: To clarify, I am proposing that we make a simple app manifest entry the only requirement for widget declaration: widget: { launch_path: ... }. OK. In Opera we did this with

Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

2013-07-23 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Monday, July 22, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Daniel Buchner wrote: > To clarify, I am proposing that we make a simple app manifest entry the only > requirement for widget declaration: widget: { launch_path: ... }. The issue > with viewMode (https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/22), is that it > h

Re: Polished FileSystem API proposal

2013-07-23 Thread pira...@gmail.com
>> Hell yes!!! +1000 to add an interface to inotify :-D > I'm concerned that you're taking this API too far. What's next - > mmaping a file to a byte array? It would be cool... :-P Ok, let's get serious. Maybe inotify would be too high level API and I agree it would be moved to a later versio