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Yeah, there's been discussions between the teams working on this at Google and Mozilla. I think the lack of coordination on a standard at this point is mostly b
by justinschuh 14y ago
Yeah, there's been discussions between the teams working on this at Google and Mozilla. I think the lack of coordination on a standard at this point is mostly because everything is still very much evolving. No one's sure exactly what's right, and we all learned the dangers of premature/aspirational standards from the start of the last decade (e.g. SVG). This is the time to iterate and figure out what works. The standards time will come once there's some real-world experience in what they should be.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoA standard already exists[1], widgets. Do a find/replace widgets with apps, then turn the xml spec to json and everyone will be happy. [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/ http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/
- justinschuh 14y agoThere are various reasons why no one has chosen to implement that standard. My personal discomfort is that it basically punts on the security portion and leaves most of the scary stuff entirely at the discretion of the implementor. For that reason alone I personally think the spec is a non-starter.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoOpera implemented it.