I think it's not fair to judge a product on beta implementations of a beta specification. When the specification reaches 1.0 (or possibly before), and implementations become more stable, we should see an environment where everything is accessable though the same opensocial namespace. Obviously there will be differences between containers, but there will be a common base that is supported on all containers, some parts that are supported by most containers, and some extensions that are supported by only a single / couple of containers. Indeed, there shouldn't be a need then for 3rd party libraries to bring consistency between containers (it is quite likely though that some 3rd party libraries will be useful for general OS gadget development).
Also see the discussion here http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api/browse_thread/thread/240a3a5c247c1b5f/09268a3856a55f12 On 11/30/07, JevS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To Chris, > I agree, that Google should take more care on OS standards. For > example, not clear if and how user preferences will be implemented > (Ning and hi5 not having any support for this) or what is recommended > maximal width for OS gadgets. At the same time, Google could not be > responsible for implementation differences. Each container is having > specific architecture. For example, there are no usual user profiles > in Ning (except some basic info - name, photo,etc) - real profiles are > created for networks (possible this is reason for new argument > 'origin' - network ID). Possible we have to say - write once for one > container and then it will be easy to rewrite it for another. > PS. Your example working fine for me in Orkut after one minor change : > document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = 'Requesting > friends...'; > Cheers. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial API Definition" 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/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
