Re: [widgets] What does it mean to have an unavailable API

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Scott Wilson
<scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think in such a case the UA should not be expected to make frob()
> available, and the Widget should not expect frob() to be present.
>
> For example, in the Shindig opensocial runtime, client JS is injected based
> on the <require> elements of the gadget. If it isn't declared, it isn't
> injected, and if you try calling those functions they just aren't there.
>
> What this does make less clear for me is in W:A&E why you'd ever want to
> call "hasFeature()"?
>

I agree. hasFeature should probably be dropped.

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