Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, JC Verdié wrote:

> Hi Marcos,
>  
> Obviously as you point out, digsig were a nightmare. May be it was us,  
> but the spec was not really straightforward to implement and we found it  
> difficult.

As lead Editor, I'm really very sorry about this - I strive to make specs as accessible to everyone as possible, and I'm sorry if what was written was confusing/difficult to interpret. If there are bits that should be clarified, then please let me know and I'll see what I can do to improve it.  

> On widgets itself, our main issue came from our own constraints (TV  
> browser with no chrome ui), it lead to some inconsistencies to handle to  
> overall UX. For instance, the impossibility to handle user events on a  
> global level so that buttons used for exit or any immediate actions are  
> not caught up by the widget, but by the "root" application. We hacked in  
> several ways to achieve this but it was a disappointing point.

Right, but this is a platform/system issue (how events traverse through the system). This was outside the scope of the work.    
> I guess what I'm saying is we missed a wider view of how widgets are  
> handled, run, die, and interact with the browser itself.
>  
> Despite this, it's been very useful to us and we have deployed many  
> solutions based on it, so anything that keeps compatibility with widgets  
> is good to us
>  

Happy to hear.

Received on Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:16:41 UTC