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→Differences between "data sources" and activities/intents
One of the things we looked at solving with WebActivities in FirefoxOS was access to "data sources". For example the list of contacts, the list of calendar events, the music library or the camera photo stream.
However due to various complexities we found that "data sources" tend to be different enough from other WebActivity use cases that we'll likely need significantly different primitives. Though there it might be possible to tie in with WebActivities somehow.
When granting access to for example contacts to an app, you likely want that app to have access to ''all'' your contacts, not just the contacts from a specific other app. So you'd want to grant access to your gmail contacts, your facebook friends, your outlook address book and any "built in" contact address book.
