Portable Container & Web Intents

[Jonathan Beri]

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.

[Jonathan Beri]

Paul Kinlane just posted some slides on Web Intents.

[Paul Kinlan]

Hi Guys,

I also happen to be on this list, so feel free to ask any questions :)

P

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Beri <jmb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Paul Kinlane just posted some slides on Web Intents.

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[Jonathan Beri]

One of the next major topics for OS is a portable container - an easy way to embed a container + gadget on the client (or even a server application.) We've talked about oEmbed, but it has its pros and cons. Web Intents seems like it may be a more robust solution - especially when combined with the Common Container. Also seems to have momentum, since Google & Firefox are working on the solution together.

What do you think? 

[Mark W.]

Jonathan & Paul K. 

I'd like to learn more about this and, as Jonathan points out, not go down a path that will put us in a corner later.