On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'd like to see the Mac port of WebKit offer completion based on the
system address book. I think a lot of the times when you enter an
email address on the Web, it's one of your own. Providing a way for
Web-based Mail clients to integrate as a provider of address
information sounds like it would be valuable, not just for <input
type="email"> but for other apps on the OS. Perhaps GMail needs some
way to plug in and provide its data to other apps. One existing way
that would work with Mac OS X (and I expect Windows and Linux too)
is for GMail to provide LDAP access.
Both those would be great. But presumably tangential? You are more
likely than I to know the relevant APIs on Mac tto file a good bug
for this...
Address Book integration on Mac is a WebKit bug - I can file that.
Similarly, type="url" should complete based on some combination of
your bookmarks, your history, and perhaps some knowledge of your
personal URLs (maybe from your address book "me" card).
GMail offering LDAP access is presumably a GMail bug, if they even
think that's a reasonable thing to do. Not really necessary to doing
address book integration.
Giving Web based contact stores a way to hook up as a system LDAP
store easily may require a new feature of the Web platform - I'm not
sure how labor-intensive it is to do the configuration with the way
things stand. This would merit research.
Regards,
Maciej
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