- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:14:38 +0200
- To: Scott Wilson <scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com>
- Cc: ifette@google.com, timeless <timeless@gmail.com>, Gregg Tavares <gman@google.com>, Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Hi Scott, On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Scott Wilson <scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 Apr 2010, at 18:46, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote: > > Marcos, Chaals, fair points. I can't honestly say that we are looking to > implement this spec at this point, > > I saw a very nice W3C Widgets implementation on Android the other day ;-) Great! can you let us know what it was so we can add it to our implementations list. > and certainly I am not the type to raise a formal objection, so please don't > misinterpret this as "I think this spec needs to go back to an earlier stage > in the formal process." I also understand that once things start to ship in > implementations, they are harder to change. I guess what irked me was that > there was what I saw as a valid point being raised and dismissed. I do think > that having a packaged format that is streamable would be useful, especially > if you wanted to host these widgets inside of any container / page that may > load the widgets dynamically (e.g. iGoogle as an example of a web page > loading what are essentially widgets). I would agree that given your > existing implementors and the use cases they are targeting, it is likely not > important enough to cause strife to existing implications and cause them not > to work. My hope was that perhaps it could be considered and a > backwards-compatible mechanism could be found. e.g. today browsers and > servers negotiate what encodings they accept, one could imagine a similar > negotiation taking place prior to whatever widget is there being served up. > I think it is something to consider, at the very least for v2. > > Certainly sounds like an interesting UC for v2 I think we all agree. I'll note that the W3C did try to start some work on something similar about a decade ago: http://www.w3.org/XML/2000/07/xml-packaging-charter.html There might be something useful there (or not). Kind regards, Marcos -- Marcos Caceres Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/ http://datadriven.com.au
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