[daisy] Better desktop integration

Marc Portier mpo at outerthought.org
Wed May 7 17:06:49 CEST 2008



Karel Vervaeke wrote:
 > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 13:35 +0200, Marc Portier wrote:
 >> Karel Vervaeke wrote:

[...]

>> *As for the listed URI's
>>    - I would keep the jws URI's strictly for GETting the web-start file 
>> to trigger the local installation.
> +1, easiest to implement, no development/design/investigation overhead
> and easy enough for users to understand (perhaps even easier than
> understanding complex jws magic)
> 
>>    - Same for the dpm-launcher file
> Unsure what you mean with dpm launcher file? Are you referring to
> the .dpm file downloaded from the wiki?  (I also don't understand what
> you would mean with 'Same for the .dpm file')
> 

yes, the dpm launcher file I mention is the one with strict metadata (no 
content) that by file-extension/mime association would 'launch' the dpm 
desktop component..

with 'same' I ment: only GET will be needed

>>    - Next to that there should be a set of pass-through REST-like part 
>> mangenemet URI's to actually get/update the part contents.
> As noted before, I think there is no need for transparent passthrough,
> but of course a decent REST design is not optional.
> 

yep: here some put/delete possibly through _method tunneling would be useful

regards,
-marc=


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