22.10.2014, 12:32, "David Rajchenbach-Teller" <dtel...@mozilla.com>:
> I don't see a contradiction.
> Each *web* app sees only files accessible from its domain (so your two
> apps have distinct "pic.jpeg").
> Each *native* app has access to whatever the operating system says.
There are a lot of use cases for sharing data with apps of *different* origins,
although there is of course a more complex security story than when everything
goes into a potentially opaque sandbox. (And to make the basic security story
work it makes sense to have some level of opacity in the sandbox).
The lack of a mechanism to do so is a huge difference with native - I have
directories in my filesystem that are autosynched to things online, but are
also visible.
The idea behind web intents/activites/etc generalises obviously to remove the
distinction between web and native - I should be able to use a web-based image
manipulation tool on stuff in my filesystem. Or several.
At the moment that can be done in a somewhat hacky way by uploading files,
manipulating them, then asking the user to save them back. But whereas I have
mail clients that store each email message on the filesystem, so I can import
stuff into a different program myself instead of having to go through a service
provider, that doesn't work for web-based email systems even when those are
designed to be functional offline.
etc etc.
cheers
Chaals
> Or am I missing something in your message?
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> On 22/10/14 12:23, Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote:
>> That contradicts:
>> - Edited files should be accessible by other client-side applications
>>
>> The api should allow for editing a 'shared folder' which multiple
>> applications / web apps can access.
>> That implies a sort of locking/unlocking api:
>>
>> e.g.
>> photo editor
>> fs = api.getFileSystem({shareName: "photos"}).then((dir) => {
>> dir.openWrite("pic.jpeg") });
>>
>> super photo viewer
>> fs = api.getFileSystem({shareName: "photos"}).then((dir) => {
>> dir.openRead("pic.jpeg") });
>>
>> What happens with the pic.jpeg?
>
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> David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD
> Performance Team, Mozilla
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