Re: Widgets 1.0

Sure, here's an example of what I mean.  This is example code from the
draft:

// Resize the widget to 400x300 px
window.resizeTo( 400, 300 );

If you were to render a widget that used that code into a webpage inline it
would resize the whole window, not itself.  If you put it in an IFRAME or
OBJECT element, you could not, as the rendering parent, know when it had
called this and the call would do nothing.  Either way it would not work.

Just to clarify though -- is this draft actually more meant for the desktop
world?  Or is in-page online rendering (/webtop) also in the thought
process?

On 2/22/07, Marcos Caceres <m.caceres@qut.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen,
> I don't see why you could not embed a widget into a page using, say, a
> HTML object element? In theory, the scope of the widget should not
> conflict with the window scope of the web page (same as an iframe or a
> flash movie). Could you please clarify your concerns a bit more?
> Kind regards,
> Marcos
>
> On 2/22/07, Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Widgets draft <http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/> seems to be meant for
> > offline widgets (ala Google Desktop).  After inspection it does not seem
> > that it could even be 100% used because it defines a window object to be
> > accessible to the widget representing the widget's window (which
> conflicts
> > with the browser window object representing the browser window).
> >
> > --
> > - Stephen Paul Weber, <http://webos.singpolyma.net/Widgets>
>
>
> --
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
>



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