That would be a great place to hold the elements you describe. It even supports lists of links.
On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Andre-John Mas <aj...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Uh, what does the index.html have to do with what I was suggesting? > > On Nov 22, 2013, at 21:19 , Mike Dierken <dier...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> See also : index.html >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Andre-John Mas <aj...@sympatico.ca> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am not sure whether this is the best place to ask this, but hopefully >>> someone might be able to provide some feedback: >>> >>> The basic idea is to have cloud services provide a simple descriptor file, >>> that describes the services hosted and what the specific URLs are. The file >>> could be in JSON or XML and would include such things as: >>> >>> - service name >>> - service logo (possibly different sizes) >>> - service description >>> - reference to licence >>> - list of services (e-mail, storage, calendar, contacts, etc) and their URLs >>> >>> This descriptor would generally be found at the root of a domain >>> (http://mydomain.net, for example)or on a specific server >>> (http://myserver.somedomain.org). Also, for security reasons it would only >>> be visible to authenticated users, this also provides the optional benefit >>> of having a dynamic descriptor which lists only the services available to >>> the authenticated user. There might be a use case for a simple version of >>> the file, visible to non-authenticated users, but at this point I have >>> researched things enough to decide on this. >>> >>> Microsoft already provides a descriptor file for exchange based services, >>> so in certain ways it is about building on that concept, but also making it >>> more generally available, eventually as an RFC (ideally). The benefit would >>> be that on your tablet or PC you would indicate the domain name for the >>> cloud service provider and the rest of the information is discovered, >>> transparent to the user. >>> >>> The next step would to be to create an open client library that leverages >>> this. >>> >>> Anyhow that's the idea. Any thoughts? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Andre >
