Re: Web Widgets, Where Art Thou?

Hi Daniel, 

On Monday, July 29, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Daniel Buchner wrote:

> FWIW, I ran a dev poll last week: ~95% of respondents

What was the sample size? Who were the developers? Where was the poll run? 

> preferred a simple, separate HTML document specifically for their widget and use all the existing DOM APIs and modules from across the web for things like storage, localization, etc. In fact, of the only 2 respondents opposed to the idea, one fundamentally misunderstood the widget concept and the other accidentally selected the wrong option. Here are some of their qualitative responses:

How did you select the sample of responses you sent us? 
 
Can I have access to the complete questionnaire? I need to check the validity and reliability of the questions as well as the overall design of the poll - as the ordering of the questions can influence answers as well as how the questions are phrased, etc.   

If it's a non-probabilistic sample (as it appears to be), we can't conclude anything definitive from it because it's not representative - though it can be indicative of something descriptively, but not inferentially. 
> Given the miniscule level of adoption/use of the current widget scheme, and the fact the proposed addition of a lighter declaration via the app manifest wouldn't affect use of the old spec, I'm having trouble understanding why this proposal is facing such stop energy.

Please don't confuse questions for "stop energy" - the costs of standardization (social/monetary) is extremely high - specially so if we don't do it right, so there will be a lot of scrutiny on anything being proposed.

Received on Tuesday, 30 July 2013 06:47:09 UTC