Re: Standardizing "cards" as UI component?

I've seen frameworks like Tako (http://takojs.com) where articles or
sections could be similar to cards concepts.. But I might be wrong...

2014-11-25 13:15 GMT+01:00 Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>:

> Isn't the intent of Web Components and the like to allow frameworks
> (like Polymer) to create widgets such as "cards"?
>
> -- Mounir
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, at 22:38, chaals@yandex-team.ru wrote:
> > 24.11.2014, 17:24, "Dominique Hazael-Massieux" <dom@w3.org>:
> > > A couple of weeks ago, Nova Spivack called on TechCrunch for W3C to
> > > standardize "Cards":
> > >
> http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/08/its-time-for-an-open-standard-for-cards/
> > >
> > > "Cards are modular, bite-sized content containers designed for easy
> > > consumption and interaction on small screens"
> >
> > So, like combining a few webpages, a la frames? (Not WML cards, but
> > something a bit more...)
> >
> > > "Standardized cards will function like a cross between a MIME
> > > attachment, a page of HTML and JavaScript and applet. They will be
> > > portable, interactive, programmatic content experiences. They will work
> > > across apps, which will open a new era of cross-app interoperability,
> > > enabling powerful new forms of sharing and productivity."
> >
> > Making them really portable means encapsulation, for script and styles.
> > That's what BEM Blocks do in existing HTML, and frames did in the 90s.
> >
> > Because each frame is a page, it has HTTP transactions, metadata,
> > encapsulation, and so on.
> >
> > > Does that suggestion resonate with people on this list? If a standard
> is
> > > indeed needed, can anyone see what kind of standard it would be? (is it
> > > new markup? new css properties? something else?)
> >
> > Depends. If you want to scope scripts (so they don't clash with other
> > stuff) you might find it worthwhile to think of markup.
> >
> > In particular, as Marcos noted, something like iframe.
> >
> > The key is making nice controllers for iframes, so the UI for flipping
> > through a bunch of things is straightforward. But frames were developed
> > for this 20 years ago - if you don't need an easy declarative framework,
> > bookmarking, etc, you will have open standards to do all this in 1999 -
> > although it might take 15 years to get things like cross-frame messaging,
> > a maybe-as-much-as-half-baked security model, etc.
> >
> > BEM shows a path toward making a declarative framework on top of this,
> > rather than asking developers to make standard UI components themselves
> > each time.
> >
> > But I don't see anything actually new here.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > --
> > Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
> > chaals@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com
> >
>
>


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