WebAPI/2014-06-24
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WebAPI Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2014-06-24 - 8:00 am Pacific
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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Notes below archived from etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes
Notes
- Service Workers shindig in SF this week
- planning, hacking on fetch
- see https://etherpad.mozilla.org/swwork for ongoing plans
- Ehsan's intern Roshan Vid
- going to work on prerendering in FxOS and desktop \o/
- Web Activities
- W3C (DAP) is interested and it's in their charter
- from what we hear, Google and others are interested
- annevk is planning on beginning on this in August
- Special guests today
- David Bialer (Product Manager for apps, marketplace, etc.)
- partner API requirements
- Ian Bicking (Engineering Manager in Cloud Services)
- services requiring DOM APIs
- Myk Melez
- interested in cross-platform APIs, notably a unified menubar API (like OS X or Unity menus, but unlikely to be of interested on desktop)
- existing proposal to extend <menu> to use OS menu where possible
- Myk thinks people are most interested in doing this in standalone (own window, own process, notably Android "ActionBar" (see below)) web apps, not in browser UAs
- Marcos cautions that the trend with web development has been to maintain unique experiences and avoid too much OS tie-in
- Myk notes (and Marcos agrees) that there are use cases where native affordances would be useful for web apps; only 2 he knows of right now:
- on desktop: menu bar
- on android: action bar
- David Bialer (Product Manager for apps, marketplace, etc.)
- David B asked on marketplace-dev about having a single link to a web page / a packaged app and re-iterates his question here
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.marketplace/kpX6CyU87wg
- could an app register as a URL handler?
- since no JS possible in emails, have to use custom protocol
- navigator.registerProtocolHandler is possible but seems underused
- Jonas has a proposal
- Ehsan recommends a thread on dev-webapi since existing proposals and mechanisms likely don't solve the use case David brought up
- Ian notes that they've started another iteration on server side push stuff