-1 to increasing the distribution size. Big -1 to this addition. Adding everything to carbon core violates the component model.
---- Sent from my phone On Sep 16, 2011 4:19 PM, "Nuwan Bandara" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We have done some work around gadget rendering, and we have developed a new > feature so that if you need a gadget in you page you do not need the > dashboard to show them. You can simply create a tag and add the gadget URL > and the UI part will be available in ur page. an example would be > > <c:gadget url="/foo.xml" height="100" width="100" class="gadget-style" /> > > once you add above tag you can place the gadget where ever you want in your > page. > > This feature can come in handy in many ways where you want to mix static and > dynamic information. We are working on revamping the system statistics page > with this new method just to demonstrate as a POC. > > However in-order to make this available we will have to add shindig a part > of carbon-core. Shindig is at the moment is 14.3MB and it will go down for > about 12MB with fixes to bundle plugin, hence this will increase the size of > the distribution in 12MBs. > > However I believe there are many advantages in having this as part of our > core UI framework. for an example Google it self is pushing this model in > almost all the pages they published recently [1]. I believe this feature can > be quite helpful for products like BPS, GREG and BAM directly. By having > this you can have functionalities like intercommunication between UI parts, > unified way to show analytics/statistics and any other dynamic content. > > comments and ideas welcome. > > [1] http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ > > -- > *Thanks & Regards, > > Nuwan Bandara > Senior Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. | http://wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > > http://nuwan.bandara.co > * > <http://www.nuwanbando.com/>
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