On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > We have started exploring creating a URL standard that would allow > linking to resources inside a .zip file. This would actually allow > having URLs to packaged apps. Not sure what the latest here is. Anne > could probably fill in the blanks.
This does not seem to be going anywhere fast. The networking crowd is not enthusiastic with it given the poor performance characteristics. Nobody seems super keen on driving it forward. When the TAG discussed it we ended up with some alternate format that would allow MIME headers, so a folder on a server could be more effectively packaged. But again, nobody is really driving that. > My next plan here is to attack the hosted apps and get those > standardized. This is going much better and I hope that we can have a > spec draft for the bookmark-to-homepage use case in just a couple of > weeks. I've talked with multiple mobile browser vendors and there is a > lot of interest here (I don't want to speak for others which is why > I'm avoiding names). I think there's still a large problem with these applications. That we're not giving them the same cache context as they would have inside the browser. That makes a lot of things that are normal interactions on the web today, a lot harder to implement. If we want to offer a no shared cache feature, it should be opt-in by the application I think. I think anything that deviates from the current browser security model through some kind of end-user UI is not good. Bookmarking Gmail should not affect the interaction model. We should move towards making the browser the OS. Inventing new security models around URLs won't get us there. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
