[widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-22 Thread Marcos Caceres
I've updated the Widget URI scheme spec, and it's now ready for publication as a new WD. What's new? I completely rewrote it. Now defines a dereferencing model that fakes HTTP responses (so hopefully now will work with JQuery mobile + XHR). New abstract: The widget URI scheme spec defines th

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-23 Thread Rich Tibbett
Marcos Caceres wrote: I've updated the Widget URI scheme spec, and it's now ready for publication as a new WD. Link for others is: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-uri What's new? I completely rewrote it. Now defines a dereferencing model that fakes HTTP responses (so hopefully now will w

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-23 Thread Mark Baker
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: > I've updated the Widget URI scheme spec, and it's now ready for publication > as a new WD. > > What's new? I completely rewrote it. Now defines a dereferencing model that > fakes HTTP responses (so hopefully now will work with JQuery mobil

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-23 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Friday, September 23, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Mark Baker wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Marcos Caceres > mailto:marcosscace...@gmail.com)> wrote: > Well, this is progress, but it seems the only difference now between > widget: and http: is the authority. And if that's the case, then > ins

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-23 Thread Mark Baker
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Marcos Caceres >> mailto:marcosscace...@gmail.com)> wrote: >> Well, this is progress, but it seems the only difference now between >> widget: and http: is the authority. And if that's the case, then >> inst

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-23 Thread Charles Pritchard
I've some strong reservations about expanding the scheme into dns-land. On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Mark Baker wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Marcos Caceres >>> mailto:marcosscace...@gmail.com)> wrote: >>> Well, this is

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-26 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Friday, September 23, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: > I've some strong reservations about expanding the scheme into dns-land. I''m still looking into this, but I don't know how we get around that. If you have any suggestions, sure would like to hear them. > > > > On S

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-26 Thread Robin Berjon
On Sep 23, 2011, at 18:26 , Mark Baker wrote: > Well, this is progress, but it seems the only difference now between > widget: and http: is the authority. And if that's the case, then > instead of (from your example); > > widget://c13c6f30-ce25-11e0-9572-0800200c9a66/index.html > > why not go wit

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-26 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Monday, September 26, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: > On Sep 23, 2011, at 18:26 , Mark Baker wrote: > > Well, this is progress, but it seems the only difference now between > > widget: and http: is the authority. And if that's the case, then > > instead of (from your example); > > >

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Baker
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote: >> There are however many useful benefits in tying a packaged web application >> (using whatever packaging) to an origin, not the least of which is >> same-origin policy and overall just being a regular web app (that may happen >> to have

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-26 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Mark Baker wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Marcos Caceres > wrote: >>> There are however many useful benefits in tying a packaged web application >>> (using whatever packaging) to an origin, not the least of which is >>> same-origin policy and overall

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-09-26 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi Marcos, On Sep 26, 2011, at 16:43 , Marcos Caceres wrote: > On Monday, September 26, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: >> Well, the advantage of a scheme is that it's solidly in the realm of the >> implementation to decide how to handle it. We've actually been bouncing >> ideas like the ab

Re: [widgets] Killing file:// of evil (widget URI ready for pub)

2011-10-11 Thread Mark Baker
I'm not sure if you're on device-apis, Marcos, but you might be interested in this - what happens when you no longer need to intercept localhost; http://www.w3.org/mid/6dfa1b20d858a14488a66d6eedf26aa35d61fed...@seldmbx03.corpusers.net Mark.