On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 Aug 2011, at 14:53, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> On 5 August 2011 14:44, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 5 Aug 2011, at 13:32, Ross Gardler wrote: >>> >>>> In addition to the article below there is an Apache licensed cross >>>> platform javascript library at >>>> https://github.com/PaulKinlan/webintents >>>> >>> >>> This looks really interesting - though I'm not sure where the registry of >>> providers for each user lives? >>> >>> Paul and I have been working on a dynamic service binding mechanism for >>> widgets using a backend service registry and some selection logic - for >>> example for identifying which SMS sending API to use (e.g. direct through >>> phone device API, or via server-side SMS gateway). However, putting the >>> user in control of selecting providers for services may be a better idea, >>> especially if this takes off. >>> >>> I wonder if it removes the need for oAuth in some cases? >> >> I'm afraid I've only read the two links provided so I'm clueless (as usual >> ;-) > > No worries :-) > > At the moment it seems to store providers at webintents.org. I imagine if > picked up more broadly it will store them in the client browser somewhere, > and then use some sort of cloud service for providing recommendations if you > haven't got anything suitable registered locally.
I played with it a little bit. For each app, the registration of services that will be used by the app is done by putting tag/elements "<intent>" into HTML pages. WebIntent javascript library parses those elements and maintains a service registry. As Scott mentioned, so far providers are stored at webintents.org. > It also doesn't seem to work on non-webkit browsers for some reason. I have the same problem here. >> >> Ross >> >>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Steve Lee <[email protected]> >>>> Date: 5 August 2011 11:07 >>>> Subject: [raveincontext-dev] Google and Mozilla working on web intents >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/google-announces-plans-to-bake-android-like-web-intents-into-chrome/ >>>> >>>> This should be really powerful for widget interactions >>>> >>>> Details: here >>>> >>>> http://webintents.org/ >>>> >>>> Steve >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ross Gardler (@rgardler) >>>> Programme Leader (Open Development) >>>> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ross Gardler (@rgardler) >> Programme Leader (Open Development) >> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com > >
