- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:28:50 -0700
- To: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
I like it. :) Perhaps HTML might want something like that... :P -----Original Message----- From: public-appformats-request@w3.org [mailto:public-appformats-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Marcos Caceres Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:17 PM To: WAF WG (public) Subject: [Widgets] platform attribute for versioning Hi, This is an initial proposal to open up discussion about versioning in the widgets configuration document format. The proposal is to include a "platform" attribute that would be part of the <widget> element. <widget platform="1.0" .../> The platform attribute would be an optional non-negative float that indicates to a widget user agent that a widget expects the APIs, security model, and capabilities as specified by the widgets 1.0 family of specifications. The platform attribute is interpreted as "the minimum platform version needed to run this widget". When the value is missing, the widget user agent will assume the value "1.0". In future versions of the widget specifications, the value would change as needed (eg. 2.0) to enable new capabilities. For future versions of the specification, authors may be required to declare the attribute to enable any new features and APIs. If an author defines a value greater than the supported version, the widget would be in error and treated as a invalid. Similar attributes are used by the configuration document formats of Konfabulator (minVersion), Vista Sidebar Gadgets (minPlatformVersion), and Google Desktop gadgets (minimumGoogleDesktopVersion). Thoughts? comments? Kind regards, Marcos -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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