Urgent: Fwd: Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration questions

Jeff - please respond to Marcos' email to you by July 9th at the  
latest and please public-webapps@w3.org.

-Regards, Art Barstow


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> From: ext Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
> Date: July 1, 2009 11:11:23 AM EDT
> To: Jeff Decker <w3c-updates@celestialwake.com>
> Cc: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration questions
> Reply-To: "marcosc@opera.com" <marcosc@opera.com>
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/ 
> b21a10670907010811t381782d4s72fa767bc454b624@mail.gmail.com>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Jeff
> Decker<w3c-updates@celestialwake.com> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I was going over the P&C spec and had a couple questions:
>>
>> 1. Under section 7.12 "The feature Element" it does not note how a  
>> widget
>> user agent should handle an unknown feature name. Is this intended?
>
> Yes, this is intentional. Processing is actually defined in Step 7:
>
> "x. If feature-name is not supported by the user agent, and
> required-feature is true, then treat this widget as an invalid widget
> package.
>
> x. If feature-name is not supported by the user agent, and
> required-feature is false, then this element, its attributes, and its
> children are in error and must be ignored. Stop processing this
> element and proceed to the next element in the elements list.
> "
>
> I've added a note at the start of the "Configuration Document" section
> referring the reader to Step 7 for details about processing of
> elements. Hopefully that will alert the reader to where processing of
> elements is described. The note simply reads:
>
> "Please see Step 7 for details of how the elements of the
> configuration document are processed by a user agent."
>
> Is that clear enough?
>
>> 2. Under section 6.5 "Start Files" it says "It is optional for  
>> user agents
>> to support the media types listed in the default start files  
>> table." Does
>> this mean a user agent can support any combination of Default  
>> Start Files
>> from the table or are the files grouped under the media types? So  
>> If I were
>> to support text/html, then I would need to search for both .htm  
>> and .html
>> files?
>
> That is correct. Is that not clear enough? If no, can you suggest some
> text that would make that more clear?
>
> -- 
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
>

Received on Tuesday, 7 July 2009 12:41:03 UTC