On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Christopher Baker <[email protected]>wrote:
> Personally, I think that the blogs with waves embedded in them look rather > funny, even with matching colors. I would think that the best option would > be to create a robot that updates the blog based on the wave content. I plan > on finding out if anybody has done this, or doing it myself, although I have > not had the time to do this. Perhaps there's even a simple way? =] > I'm playing with doing this. Unfortunately it's not straightforward, and at least two Wave bugs preclude a well-designed solution, IMO. There are several issues I'm thinking of ways around: 1. Serializing the blip to HTML. It's easy enough to generate <p> and <br> elements to get the structure of the blip, but what about overlapping annotations? Embedded gadgets? Images[1]? 2. How does the robot authenticate to the place you'll store the content? Bloggy solves this by hosting the content locally. This pretty much requires something like OAuth. If the target for your content doesn't support that, that may mean more work implementing it. 3. When you add the robot to the wave, how does the robot know where to send the content? What if multiple people want to use the same robot to post to separate places? More UI/configuration needed. 4. How does the robot know that the events it's receiving from Wave are legitimate[2]? You don't want someone sending fake events that cause the robot to publish something it's not supposed to. 5. Do you plan to integrate comments? How? David [1] http://code.google.com/p/google-wave-resources/issues/detail?id=61 [2] http://code.google.com/p/google-wave-resources/issues/detail?id=344 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
