On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I think the problems are really clear and crystal. The biggest is the >> devlopment effort. Then I get this question of why does it need to go though >> a server side component at all for many cases, where the browser can do it >> completely and cleanly with JS. And with the second point, again comes the >> ease of development, all that you want is to Google, and there is enough >> support around on how to write with JQuery. So what does it give me as added >> advantage to use Shinding here and why is it better? Gadget repo? Gadget >> communication? Gadget security? >> > > I get your point :) but I believe a person who is willing to google a bit > and find some nice jquery plugins/mechanisms wont find any difference in > writing a gadget. It is no deference in writing a webpage with javascript > and writing a gadget. you can simply ignor all the features that a gadget > offer and simply write the web page as a gadget. > > So IMO a gadget is something that gives more than some web content. It is > dynamic, portable, and give other benefits as you specified. So I see no > defferent in using a different dashboard solution for other products when > you can do the same thing with an equal effort. > +1 - there's no work difference between writing a gadget and a writing a pure JS UI bit: The gadget code can simply do exactly that. The advantage is that the gadget is reusable (by design), is a standard, can be part of a repo of gadgets to be shared in other places etc. etc.. The main reason we're not seeing those benefits right now is because our gadgets are not cool enough :). Too much flash will do that to you. Sanjiva. -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: [email protected]; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 650 265 8311 blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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