Re: [widget] technology/specification name

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Rich Tibbett <richt@opera.com> wrote:
> Marcos Caceres wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Charles Pritchard<chuck@jumis.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> One issue which comes up is that widget is also used in ARIA to describe
>>> ui elements.
>>>
>>> I suspect we'll see apps used ubiquitously; widget seems to e reserved to
>>> early experiments in linked apps; apps via iframe.
>>>
>>> Like many on this thread, I don't have a strong objection against the
>>> name. I rather appreciate the thread, it's bringing out more distinctions as
>>> to what we're talking about and targeting.
>>>
>>
>> Lets just change it to Packaged Web Apps.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> I'd couple that with the short-hand term 'web package'.

We would just be changing the title of the documents.
It's not like we are changing the <widget> element or the widget
interface. This is just a repaint of the bikeshed from off white to
mother of perl.

I think this is probably the 1000th time we have had this naming
discussion over the last 5 years. Hopefully, if we do change stuff as
we go to REC, it will be the last.

-- 
Marcos Caceres
http://datadriven.com.au

Received on Friday, 24 June 2011 09:41:52 UTC