Re: Web Activities: counter-proposal to Web Intents

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > With some people at Mozilla, we've been working on an API similar to Web > Intents in some points but distant enough to be a counter-proposal. We > believe that the API is now in a good enough shape to be officially sent > in those mailing lists an

Re: Web Activities: counter-proposal to Web Intents

2012-06-21 Thread Greg Billock
Thanks, Mounir. I've been reading the overview, and I have a lot of the same reactions Robin did to issues of scope. Based on what I read in the wiki and in this mail, the scope you have in mind is very similar to where I think we all agree the use cases of web intents predominately lie (edit, pick

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 and

Web Activities: counter-proposal to Web Intents

2012-06-12 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, With some people at Mozilla, we've been working on an API similar to Web Intents in some points but distant enough to be a counter-proposal. We believe that the API is now in a good enough shape to be officially sent in those mailing lists and discussed. You can have an overview of the API he