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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/29/2013 05:45 PM, Benjamin
Poulain wrote:<br>
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Can you explain a bit what it is for? What are the common use
cases?<br>
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This would be useful for certain kinds of web apps. For example,a
music website like Pandora or Spotify could allow users to include
music on their local network. Or a service like Netflix could
include local network movies (on networked hard drives, or DVR's) in
their search results, and play them from the same interface.<br>
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Or use-case is to make a media center UI entirely in HTML5 (huge
portability benefits), and to allow that UI to discovery local DLNA
HTML5 Remote UI's (I'd love to put a link to what this is, but the
spec isn't public and the best link is <a
href="http://html5.cablelabs.com/dlna-rui/index.html">our own page</a>
about it).<br>
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The use-cases would probably be more interesting if browsers were
able to advertise themselves, but that's not part of this spec
unfortunately.<br>
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I suspect that Firefox would be interested, since it fits into the
"Firefox OS" idea, but it looks like no one has really talked to
them about it yet.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> Who already implements it?</blockquote>
Opera <a
href="http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/network-service-discovery-api-support-in-opera/">supports
it</a> (it looks like an experimental build though).<br>
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<a
href="http://jcdufourd.wp.mines-telecom.fr/2013/05/15/network-service-discovery-api/">This
person</a> made a Java applet to add support to existing browsers.<br>
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There's <a
href="https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#%21topic/blink-dev/HT0KZKuTLxM">a
thread on the Chromium mailing list</a> about this.<br>
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It sounds like they're planning to update the spec before
implementing it though, since there's some strange requirements for
garbage collection and they want to do a review of the security and
privacy implications.<br>
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mark a. foltz said,<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Thanks
for your feedback. (I'm working with Justin on this.) I'll
summarize our response and plan.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">(1)
Agreed that a longer discussion of the security and privacy
implications of the API is warranted. Rich posted a section to
the spec [1] that is a good starting point; I plan on working
with the editors on minimizing the opportunities for harm, and
minimizing the ability to fingerprint users of the API, which
was brought up by the Chrome privacy team.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">(2) Rich
posted an update to the spec to address the language around
garbage collection.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a
href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dap/diff/b4b2569b4e9b/discovery-api/Overview.src.html"
target="_blank">https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dap/<wbr>diff/b4b2569b4e9b/discovery-<wbr>api/Overview.src.html</a><br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">(3) I
reviewed the last several months of list traffic and, to my
ability to scan, haven't seen comments or commitment from other
browser vendors. I'll let Rich fill in if there are any updates
here. I think an effort to evangelize and get additional
participation will be helpful to the spec as a whole.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Given the
current set of feedback, we plan on working with the spec
editors and coming back when we feel it is ready to implement.</div>
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