Hi Alex, On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Alexandru Cismaru <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi. I'm Alexandru Cismaru (MSc student in Iasi) , last year I was a GSOC > student at XWiki, with the RESTful API project. > > This year I'm interested again in another project, *XWiki Cross Platform > Web and Desktop Widget*. I have done some research and talked with Ludovic, > Sergiu and Guillaume on the IRC, so this is what I came out so far: > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/XWikiWidgetandFirefoxextension. Looks cool, good work. Overall I like it. I am wondering about a couple things: - Are your mockups for the FF extension of for the desktop widget? - If you plan on implementing desktop widgets, have you given a look at the different widget platforms to see how hard your ideas were to implement? - I'm not sure you'll be able to avoid scrolling, in a small widget scrolling seems better than pagination (be it only because every mouse has a scrolling wheel which makes scrolling efficient and easy while pagination takes an additional click) - I'm not sure the additional RSS feed is that much needed -> if the user already has his watchlist + the public feed, what will the RSS feed be useful for? Doesn't it add complexity without much benefits to be expected? - Have you given a look to http://www.socialtext.com/products/desktop.php? You might get some inspiration from their implementation. Subsidiary question: if you're planning to develop using HTML + CSS, is using the Adobe AIR framework an option? It would provide us with a cross-platform widget right away, which would be cool... Do you think you could spend, say, 30 minutes investigating the feasability / interest of using the AIR framework for a widget? This might have OSS implications as well (though I don't see why AIR code cuoldn't be Open-Souce), what do others think? Note to other GSoCers -> ask one of the mentors if you want access to the mockup creation tool on incubator.myxwiki.org. Guillaume Please give me your feedback and ideas. > > Thank you, > Alexandru Cismaru > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
