Can you give an example of a smooth UI that you'd need the more complex API for? When I think of the existing mail and chat apps in iOS/Android that I've use, <input type=contacts> could give just as smooth a UI as the existing apps, it's just on the browser side to make the UI good instead of on the web developer side.
Ojan On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Alex Nicolaou <anico...@google.com> wrote: > A user agent defined solution will make apps like mail, chat, > Facebook, and so on all feel awful in safari versus installing a > native app. It's like j2me all over again unless the website can > provide a smooth ui. > > Alex > > On Friday, June 24, 2011, Ojan Vafai <o...@chromium.org> wrote: > > Is there a document that lists the use-cases for this API? I couldn't > find anything from a quick glance through the DAP working group's mailing > list archive. A list of use-cases would help evaluate whether this is the > best API. At first glance, it strikes me that something like <input > type=contacts> would meet the uses-cases I can think of better. > > > > > > Ojan > > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:28 PM, 김동관 <donggwan....@samsung.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi webkit-dev! > > > > I wanted to let you know that I plan to add Contacts API support to > WebKit. > > This API is a new feature that is published by W3C. > > The Device APIs Working Group of W3C has just released a Last Call > Working Draft of its Contacts API: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-contacts-api-20110616/ > > > > I'm going to commit patch for Contacts API implementation very soon. > > > > This support will be behind the ENABLE_CONTACTS feature define. See: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63223 > > > > We'll be setting up a buildbot to track then ENABLE_CONTACTS build > shortly. We expect > > this feature to be eventually enabled by all ports. > > Looking forward to your comments. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Donggwan > > _______________________________________________ > > webkit-dev mailing list > > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Try Gmail Offline for Chrome <http://goto.ext.google.com/fastgmail-chrome > >, > and send me your complaints! >
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