- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:41:06 +0000
- To: Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: SUZANNE Benoit RD-SIRP-ISS <benoit.suzanne@orange-ftgroup.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Hi Jon, On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > It would be good if the Widgets spec was careful to study potential > conflicts with similar attributes in Google/OpenSocial Gadgets and OpenAjax > Metadata. Google Gadgets has: > > OpenSocial/Google Gadgets: > <content view="canvas|profile|home|preview"> > * http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/ui.html#views > * http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/reference/#gadgets.views.ViewType > > OpenAjax: > <content view="default|edit|help|insert"> > * > http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/OpenAjax_Mashable_Widgets#view_attribute > > Over at OpenAjax Alliance, we are in the process of examining our spec for > web widgets to align better with Google Gadgets. There is a good chance we > will change our 'view' attribute to re-use the same keywords as > OpenSocial/Google Gadgets when used for the same purpose. The W3C doesn't > have to do that since there are different namespaces for the different XML > vocabularies anyway, but at least it makes sense to spend a little time > studying what's happening at OpenSocial and OpenAjax to see if it makes > sense to attempt to share the same markup. Thanks for the heads up. We are currently drafting a requirement around this (and will certainly consider both Google's and OAA's solutions to this problem). We will post the requirement for review to the list once it is ready. However, a first glance, both Google's and OAA's don't seem to suit our requirements. -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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