Dominik, We are also considering implementing inter-widget communication framework in RAVE. Your work in ROLE is interesting and I will look into it definitely.
Gerald On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Dominik Renzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > this is indeed quite interesting. In the context of the ROLE project, we are > developing an interwidget communication library that realizes both local and > remote forms (local via HTML5 PostMessage, remote via XMPP PubSub) and uses > the Google Android schema for intents as the event payload format. This > works quite well, and was thought to enable communication between widgets > and native Android applications in future... > > Best regards, > > Dominik > > > Am 05.08.2011 15:44, schrieb Scott Wilson: >> >> 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? >> >>> ---------- 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 > >
