Re: [widgets] Widget modes

The problem I see by having different html pages for each mode is that you 
cannot handle keeping the state of a widget when changing from one mode to 
the other.

expanded -> iconized -> expanded

I expect my widget to stay in the same state.

> <content src="minimumbackgroundaction.js" mode="hidden"/>

How is this supposed to work?

The state of the application while running is stored into its content 
file, into window (for the JavaScript part) and document (for the HTML part).

Regards,

-- 
Yoan
Widget Developer, Opera Software ASA


On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, SUZANNE Benoit RD-SIRP-ISS wrote:

> Hi all, about the widget windows modes, I wanted to share the following points:
> 
> *** Wording ***
> In the wordings of the modes, I think that the wording used in some of the modes are too specific to existing platforms, therefore I propose the following names:
>  *  Icon: I’m not sure this one is really a mode as it is already dealt with in the rest of the spec in the right manner with a static image format
>  *  Iconized: this mode will allow to define an icon that can be adapted to the content status, for example a weather icon will display the right cloud or sun based on the real time information. This is possible using the svg, but I believe this is one of the
>     modes of displaying information in a widget.
>  *  Expanded: this is the reference to the existing floating mode in the spec or the undocked mode for vista
>  *  Minimized: this is the reference to the existing docked mode in the spec but is too restrictive in the wordings
>  *  Full screen: now for this one my worry is more the fact that there are other attributes that should be available for this mode as the display can be specific to the orientation (landscape or portrait) and to the size of the screen’s device (vga, qvga, ...)
>  *  Hidden: I like the proposition from mark to allow a widget to run as a background task that can awaken an action, so you would probably need to add this as a mode as well.
>  *  Settings: I would also like to add the settings of the widget as a specific mode as this will largely simplify the coding of the widget where all the various screens to display will all be defined as modes.
> 
> ***Context***
> The way I see this implemented is that based on the platform actions (drag on a widget bar for example) the platform would switch from one view to the other. Or based on a code input in the hidden mode, a widget would be able to call it’s Minimized mode through
> the code. In this context the one thing that needs to be included is how to pass parameters from one mode to the other, but that could be resolved using some kind of parametered declaration.
> 
> ***Usage***
> I do not see the mode as an element, but as an item of the content element, see examples below.
> 
> ***Code example***
> In the format to use the modes I propose the following as a bases for discussions:
> <content src="miniview.html" mode=”minimized”/>
> <content src="index.html" mode=”expanded” default=”true” flying=”true”/>
> <content src="fullscreen-vga.html" mode=”fullscreen” width=”640” height=”480”/>
> <content src="fullscreen-wvga.html" mode=”fullscreen” width=”854” height=”480” orientation=”landscape”/>
> <content src="fullscreen-wvga.html" mode=”fullscreen” width=”854” height=”480” orientation=”portrait”/>
> <content src="minimumbackgroundaction.js" mode=”idden”/>
> <content src="settings.html" mode=”settings”/>
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best Regards, Benoit
> 
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