On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:19 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Fabrice Desre <fabr...@desre.org> wrote: >> WebShare is more a trimmed down version of the WebActivities/WebIntents >> apis. I think it's unfortunate that instead of fixing the issues with WA/WI >> they went with a single purpose API - this doesn't scale at all with uses >> case they don't think about and limits the innovation for content >> publishers. > > It's a little off-topic, but the overall issue with both of those > technologies was that the approach was too general. And such overly > generic APIs do not translate to good UX. I think starting small and > slowly expanding the types of things we want to make extensible, and > thinking those through all the way up to and including the user > experience, makes for a much more viable approach.
You're both right. WA/WI were both way-over-architected*, however with WebShare, it's overcorrecting the other direction, it's an API that may be too limited, and in particular limited in such a way that unnecessarily (and badly) biases large anti-privacy (among other ills) vertical content silos. While I generally agree with Anne's philosophy "starting small and slowly expanding the types of things we want to make extensible", I think the "which small" needs to be evaluated by a frank "Is this actually *good* for the open web, neutral, or actively bad?" (unfortunately the latter in this case). Also good methodology worth repeating: "thinking ... through all the way up to and including the user experience, makes for a much more viable approach" Finally Anne is right about it being a little off-topic. This github issue may be a better place for WebShare follow-ups (more specifics there): https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/27 Thanks, Tantek *https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
