[cap-talk] Granting access to web services

[Kenton Varda]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:

> I can't speak to any proposals that were presented before I joined the
> Chrome team, but I can say that since at least two people on this
> thread have @chromium.org accounts, it is getting at least some
> traction. The question of how to grant access to local devices (which
> what is driving this whole discussion) is understood to be a big
> problem in Chrome-land. If the proposal solves this problem in a way
> that is deemed usable, I'm pretty sure it'll get a real hearing.
>

Right, and that would be great!  Just saying we may want to plan for the
worst.

But I think that once we have a working demo up which we can actually show
people, they'll come around quite quickly.  All this UI stuff sounds very
complicated when written down, and that tends to make people think that
users will never get it.  But I think in practice it will be a very
intuitive experience.


> You probably can't implement a solution to the local device access
> problem without browser help though (the support just isn't there).
>

Sure you can, if you can get the user to run a local web server which
provides REST APIs for those devices.  Of course, getting browser support
would be much better, but it's not strictly necessary.
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