[webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_CALENDAR to WebCore

[Wonsuk Lee]

Hi. Adam.


2011년 7월 17일 오후 2:52, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>님의 말:
> 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.

I am a little bit confused. What does that mean ?

Did you think a current version of device APIs(including calendar) are
not mature yet for the Webkit?
or
Web-friendly URL-based approach is better than javascript API for the Webkit ?


best regards,
Wonsuk.

> 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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