Bug 59637 – Overview of Web Introducer API

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: New Bugs

[Tyler Close]

Overview of Web Introducer API

[Tyler Close]

Created attachment 91353 [details]
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[Tyler Close]

This patch is not intended to be committed as is, but rather to provide an overview of all the changes needed in WebKit to support the Web Introducer API. The API syntax implemented here diverges from that in the Web Introducer spec, but has roughly the same semantics. The spec will be brought into line with what is in this patch.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Comment on attachment 91353 [details]
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The patch is not meant to be committed per the above comment, so rejecting r?.

For discussion, please bring this up on webkit-dev mailing list. This functionality seems quite esoteric to me personally.

[Tyler Close]

(In reply to comment #3)
> For discussion, please bring this up on webkit-dev mailing list.

Looking forward to that once some preliminary discussions have advanced. This bug is for those who want to get a head start on the discussion and to square away implementation details that might distract from the broader discussion.

> This functionality seems quite esoteric to me personally.

It's probably pretty hard to understand the Introducer based only on the WebKit patch. Most of the actual functionality ends up being specific to the embedder. The corresponding Chromium patch is at:

http://codereview.chromium.org/6880275/

The Web Introducer is also a pretty low level API, just adding a discovery and user consent mechanism to the browser and letting Web applications define protocols for sharing of particular media types. Just as a transistor is a little esoteric until you see a computer, the Web Introducer is a little esoteric until you see media-type specific sharing protocols. A strawman proposal for social bookmarking is at:

http://web-send.org/bookmark/

If you have time to spot check this patch for implementation oddities that might distract people from discussing the core functionality, that would probably help the eventual mailing list discussion.

[Ahmad Saleem]

I am going to mark this as "RESOLVED WONTFIX" considering that Web Introducer API was not introduced widely and I only found this discussion about it online.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2011Jan/0096.html