A new URL scheme wouldn't work at all; relative addressing and different
existing schemes (eg http vs https) would be broken. Or did you mean a new
URL separator? I favored that approach at first but Jeni's <link>-based
proposal has a couple key benefits over doing it through URLs:
1. It's hard to find a separator that won't break existing content.
Whatever it is it would certainly be ugly, but I'm not even sure what it
would be.
2. Using the <link> tag makes degradation much easier; it's just a tag
browsers ignore, and then the server gets requests for normal paths of
individual assets like "/foo/bar/baz.png" instead of "/foo.pkg". With the
URL approach servers have to handle requests from old browsers with the
funky separator like "/foo.pkg!//bar/baz.png".
3. Most critical: the <link> tag is a localized change to your HTML when
you decide to package up a directory, whereas the URL approach requires
changing lots of references all over your HTML.
Dave
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On June 26, 2014 5:18:00 AM Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
> However if we can enable developers to sign their own applications,
> rather than having to have them signed by the marketplace, then that
> would still mean that developers could roll out updates as quickly as
> web developers do today. I.e. no need to wait for review from a
> marketplace.
Could you elaborate on this? I thought part of the point of allowing
certain features to be used was that we could inspect the code and
make sure nothing malicious was going on. Do we actually secure things
in a different way?
> Additionally packages bring other advantages. The W3C TAG is currently
> working on creating a standardized packaging format for the web. They
> are doing this for at least a couple of reasons.
Note that what the TAG is working on now does not have the new URL
scheme. It only works for subresources of an HTML document. That
seemed somewhat disappointing to me, but nobody else cared much.
PS: That was an amazing email. I'm sorry I missed it initially. Andrew
had to point it out to me. It captures the entire picture really well.
Thanks!
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