[webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_CALENDAR to WebCore

[Adam Barth]

This API seems roughly isomorphic to a JSON web service in the browser:

navigation.calendar.findEvents(success, failure, options);

 =>

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', 'device://calendar/find-events');
xhr.onload = success;
xhr.onerror = failure;
send(JSON.stringify(options));

The URL-based approach has two major advantages:

1) URLs are a natural extension point for the platform, leading to a
clean separation of concerns.  For example, you wouldn't need to write
any code in WebKit.  All the supporting infrastructure can be provided
by the embedder.

2) URLs allow more natural integration with web sites.  As the API is
structured today, the calendar must be provided by the user agent.
If, instead, the API was based on URLs, the calendar service could be
provided by a web services.  For example, Google Calendar could
provide an implementation of the API at
https://calendar.google.com/find-events and control access to the API
using CORS.

My sense is that WebKit should not implement calendar or the other
related device APIs at this time.  Instead, we should address these
use cases using the more extensible, web-friendly URL-based approach.

Adam


2011/7/16 김동관 <donggwan.kim at samsung.com>:
> I've registered bug to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64662.
>
> Donggwan
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> Sender : Simon Fraser<simon.fraser at apple.com>
> Date   : 2011-07-17 12:20 (GMT+09:00)
> Title  : Re: [webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_CALENDAR to WebCore
>
> What's the bugzilla bug (or bugs)?
>
> Simon
>
> On Jul 16, 2011, at 8:11 PM, 김동관 wrote:
>
>> Hi webkit-dev!
>>
>> I wanted to let you know that I plan to add Calendar API support to WebKit.
>> This API is a new feature that is published by W3C.
>> The Device APIs Working Group of W3C has just released a Working Draft of its Calendar API:
>>    http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-calendar-api-20110419/
>>
>> I'm going to commit patch for Calendar API implementation very soon.
>>
>> This support will be behind the ENABLE_CALENDAR feature define.
>>
>> We'll be setting up a buildbot to track then ENABLE_CALENDAR build shortly. We expect
>> this feature to be eventually enabled by all ports.
>> Looking forward to your comments.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Donggwan
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