- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:58:29 -0400
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
- Cc: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
I do not want to start a name bikeshedding.
The name doesn't bother me so far, but I have seen that comment again and again.
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:06:24 GMT
In Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Installable web apps and interoperability
At http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/installable-web-apps-and-interoperability/
Installable apps (in W3C parlance, Widgets – which
is a terrible name) allow authors to write apps
using HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript, SVG etc, and
package them up into a glorified Zip file with
some configuration details which can then be
installed on a computer.
It seems that "extensions" or "addons" would be more cognitively connected with Web developers.
y'know, so terrible is the W3C “Widgets” name
that I didn't even think it referred to the
same thing as Chrome’s apps, et al.
— http://twitter.com/nevali/status/83866541388603392
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
Received on Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:59:11 UTC