On Jun 28, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Ojan Vafai wrote: >> 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. > I think a token field based UI for this (like the address field in Mail on > Mac OS X, or the attendees field in iCal) might make for good UI for this > sort of thing. But this design assumes that the email address is desired, or > at least relevant to display. Are there use cases where a contact is desired > for a purpose completely unrelated to email addresses? Perhaps if you are > making a dialer or an SMS app, but I'm not sure that is a case we want to > support. > > I think we probably do want to support those use-cases. You could still make > this work with an input element.
I suppose you could, but you'd want different surface UI for the input itself, and the primary interface to contacts would be some sort of pop-up picker. > Security-wise, I think it would be OK to expose the entirety of the contact > info once the user selects a contact. So the app would then be able to show > whatever they want in the UI. > > I didn't want to delve too much into API details before getting a list of > use-cases, but with the use-cases I have in mind, I think we'd also want a > way of filtering items the user can pick from, similar to the "accept" > attribute on <input type=file>. For example, for an SMS app we'd only want to > show contacts that have a mobile phone number. Listing use cases is good. At some point maybe we want to take this back to a standards venue. Regards, Maciej
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