Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

Marcos Caceres wrote:
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> On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, JC Verdié wrote:
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>> Hi Marcos,
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>> Obviously as you point out, digsig were a nightmare. May be it was us,
>> but the spec was not really straightforward to implement and we found it
>> difficult.
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> As lead Editor, I'm really very sorry about this - I strive to make specs as accessible to everyone as possible, and I'm sorry if what was written was confusing/difficult to interpret. If there are bits that should be clarified, then please let me know and I'll see what I can do to improve it.

We're talking about long-lasting history here :) I'd need to ask the 
developers from this time if they do remember what's been the biggest 
problems. Stay tuned.

>> On widgets itself, our main issue came from our own constraints (TV
>> browser with no chrome ui), it lead to some inconsistencies to handle to
>> overall UX. For instance, the impossibility to handle user events on a
>> global level so that buttons used for exit or any immediate actions are
>> not caught up by the widget, but by the "root" application. We hacked in
>> several ways to achieve this but it was a disappointing point.
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> Right, but this is a platform/system issue (how events traverse through the system). This was outside the scope of the work.

Agreed. But it's been a hurdle and I don't know how many companies just 
gave up about widgets because of this.


>> I guess what I'm saying is we missed a wider view of how widgets are
>> handled, run, die, and interact with the browser itself.
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>> Despite this, it's been very useful to us and we have deployed many
>> solutions based on it, so anything that keeps compatibility with widgets
>> is good to us
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> Happy to hear.
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Received on Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:29:56 UTC