Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
In FirefoxOS we already limit the ability to *handle* an activity to webapps, however we do allow websites to initiate an activity. I think it would make sense to only allow webapps to both handle and initiate activities on android. This way we can limit exposure until we have a solution that is m

Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-16 Thread Mark Finkle
- Original Message - > When you say "intent to implement" what is it you're planning on > implementing? > * web activities between b2g-style webapps on Android Yes > * web activities called by sites loaded in the Firefox for Android browser? > * web activities provided by sites loaded i

Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-16 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Joshua Dover wrote: > - Notes from the Extensible Web Summit this month > (http://oksoclap.com/p/8pYs44D5CQ) :sicking should be able to provide more > info on standardization progress. I'm not sicking, but there was some interest there from Google and we defini

Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-16 Thread Wesley Johnston
> When you say "intent to implement" what is it you're planning on > implementing? For the initial drop here, we've implemented a way for web apps (or sites if we decide to enable this for them, but after talking here and with the team, I think restricting this to WebApps is a good idea), to fi

Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-16 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 4/16/2014 12:37 PM, Wes Johnston wrote: Something like this is needed for integration of B2G WebApps on Android. Without it, they have no way of talking to one another, let alone any way of talking to Native Apps. The best they can provide is launching a uri with a specific scheme and to hop

Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-16 Thread Wes Johnston
Something like this is needed for integration of B2G WebApps on Android. Without it, they have no way of talking to one another, let alone any way of talking to Native Apps. The best they can provide is launching a uri with a specific scheme and to hope something on the other end is able to pic

Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-16 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 4/15/2014 5:08 PM, Joshua Dover wrote: Summary: Allow webpages, web apps, and addons to interact with native Android apps via MozActivity Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970707 Link to standard: current MozActivity not on standards track: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US

Re: Intent to Implement: Web Activities for Android

2014-04-16 Thread Ms2ger
On 04/15/2014 11:08 PM, Joshua Dover wrote: as this current specification is not on a standards track (and will probably not be compatible with what we have now). That sounds like a clear "no" to me. HTH Ms2ger ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platf