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

2009/6/2 Marcin Hanclik <Marcin.Hanclik@access-company.com>:
> Hi Scott,
>
> In BONDI we have discussed the (has/request)Feature() for some time.
> http://bondi.omtp.org/1.0/security/BONDI_Architecture_and_Security_v1.0.pdf, section 4.3
>
> A few points for further discussion:
> 1. feature (at least in BONDI) is an abstract thing, not just one function. So hasFeature() is simply optimized checking procedure. If you check for a feature and discover that it is available, you may/should/must assume that a set of functions is available. Otherwise, you have to check each function individually and basically you cannot assume that if one functions is available, then the other is as well.
>
> 2. requestFeature() adds dynamism to the Website content. Widgets express their dependency statically by <feature>.
> http://bondi.omtp.org/1.0/security/BONDI_Architecture_and_Security_Appendices_v1.0.pdf B.2 specifies more details.
>

I still have no clue what requestFeature() does/means. The again, I
have not read the Bondi spec regarding that.

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Received on Monday, 8 June 2009 18:34:55 UTC