- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:47:31 -0500
- To: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Marcos, A few weeks ago we talked about how a widget author could add widget- specific metadata (e.g. initial settings) to the config file [1]. I think providing a declarative means to provide this metadata is consistent with existing Req #14 - Widget Metadata [2]. Additionally, at least some of the Widget User Agents in the Widgets Landscape document also support this functionality [3]. The type of syntax to support this would be something like: <preference name="..." value="..."/> And the A&E's getPreference method [4] would return the value attribute's value. I realize an author can define all of its widget-specific metadata in script but having the data defined in the config file is consistent with some existing WUAs. WDYT? -Regards, Art Barstow [1] <http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/webapps/20090202> [2] <http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-reqs/#r14.-widget-metadata> [3] <http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-land/#metadata0> [4] <http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/#the-getpreference-method>
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