[whatwg] Installed Apps

[Dmitry Titov]

After some internal discussions, I've sent a quite updated proposal which
includes use cases we've looked at ("Global Script"). We've got some
experience of talking with app developers and it seems having a concept of
'application context' or 'global script' is a recurring theme.. The unwanted
serialization and asynchronously in places where developers don't wants them
(think selecting a pice of text in a web application that allows "split
window" view at the document) definitely points that something like a
"Shared Worker" but without a thread and with direct DOM access is a good
idea which compliments the set of building blocks...

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Mike Wilson <mikewse at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think Drew wanted handling of
>> "live" objects, where each window gets access to the same
>> concrete objects (possibly protected by private proxy
>> objects) so the graph can be walked without cloning.
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> To be honest, I'm not really a good spokesperson for this issue, as most of
> my thinking has been around shared workers which have all the same drawbacks
> for data sharing that WebStorage has.
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> I was just saying that I understand the problem that the shared context is
> trying to address. I personally think that part of the problem can be
> overcome using the existing tools, although with more effort on the app side
> than a simple shared context solution.
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>> Drew: are you thinking that the same object graph also
>> makes up the data cache between sessions? If not, then
>> persistence is not a must-have for this use case so the
>> area of ideas could well expand outside webstorage.
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> I think ideally serialization would happen only when data needs to be
> persisted. If I have a data structure that I want to share with other open
> windows, I shouldn't have to persist it to accomplish this, and I certainly
> shouldn't have to re-serialize it every time I want to make a minor change.
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> But, again, I'm just speaking in the abstract - the folks proposing shared
> context (Dmitry) should probably chime in here as they've thought about this
> problem much more than I have.
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> -atw
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