Btw, if anyone wants to get (back) into couchapps, I have a super easy template to fork and tryout:
https://github.com/garden20/baseline-garden-app On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Ryan Ramage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Michiel de Jong <[email protected]> > wrote: >> many thanks for doing this! > > Thanks for the great feedback and really walking through it. I had > most of it done for a while, just needed to really work hard to polish > it up a bit more. > >> >> I really like how install lets you choose "garden market" but also "or >> paste a URL", easily usable. >> >> One question about pasting a URL though: it wasn't clear to me how i >> can for instance install http://www.theinfinitemaze.com/ - should i >> obtain some sort of app manifest URL from the independent app >> publisher to paste in there? >> > > Currently the only url that work in that field is a link to an app in > _any_ garden market. Something that looks like: > > http://garden20.com/market/details/bookmarks > > We just wanted to show a way that you are not forced to use one > market. Some work should be done to make that more clear. That being > said > we could probably sniff the url provided a little more, and if it is a > regular couchapp provided a way to replicate it over to your garden. I > will have to think about that. > > >> I even think the "do you trust this app?" page can be toned down, when >> i saw it i assumed that all apps would be sharing one data space. >> Given that this is not the case, all an app could do is DoS you, >> right? I mean, i think you could skip this "are you sure?" screen >> even. > > It needs to be there in some form. I can send you a link like this: > http://bit.ly/Qglbda To try and fool you. Just some safety measures. > >> >> I'll think about if there is a way to port our existing remoteStorage >> apps to CouchApp. They all use remoteStorage.js, so if we port that, >> we would port all future apps on our platform automatically to your >> platform. The main difference is the separation between data of >> different apps, i think. > > I can see remote storage as a nice fit if people build hosted gardens > from the smaller apps, and remoteStorage lets them save data to/from > them. Also pouchdb is a great fit for this. > >> >> ps, everybody else can stop trying to squat 'unwalled.garden20.com' as >> a username, i already got it. :) >> > > it truly is trying to be an unwalled garden. Good name :)
