- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:53:49 +0200
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- CC: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "Nilsson, Claes1" <Claes1.Nilsson@sonyericsson.com>, "public-device-apis@w3.org" <public-device-apis@w3.org>
On 9/20/10 7:09 PM, Nathan wrote: > Arthur Barstow wrote: >> >> On 9/20/10 9:15 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote: >>> Widgets are just a simple packaging format with >>> a fairly simple API for storing stuff and getting some metadata. >> Every time I read one of these discussions I lament the decision to >> change the original name of the spec "Web Application Packaging >> Format" [WAPF] to "widgets". > > What's the fundamental difference between a Widget and a Web > Application? What's the distinction? See discussion in http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-land/ And: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-reqs/ > I guess I'm asking if what I think of a "Web Application" > (HTML5+webapps+js etc) is different in some way to what a "Widget" is, > perhaps different use-cases / implementations in mind when these specs > were written? If the above don't help, I'll send you a copy of my PhD on widgets. -- Marcos Caceres Opera Software
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