Paul Kinlan from Google is working on a project called
Web Intents.I just learned about Web Intents in a
recent post. He describes Web Intents as "a framework for client-side service discovery and inter-application communication." Sounds a lot like embedding gadgets. This may be a good solution for a portable container, even better than something like oEmbed. There's even a concept of actions & types, that corresponds to activity stream model.
There's already plenty of
sample code to play with & its even under Apache licensing.
What do you guys think? I'd love to see portable container make it into 2.1.