(altering the subject to be more accurate)
On Feb 5, 5:04 pm, Alex E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MySpace unveiled its platform today, which claims to use OpenSocial
> but has too many limitations to allow developers to build cross-
> (social)-platform apps.
>
> This is setting a very dangerous precedent for the future of
> OpenSocial and Google needs to step in right now and force MySpace to
> comply with the spec. As it stands now, MySpace is the least common
> denominator among the OpenSocial implementations. This means that in
> order to write cross-platform apps, developers have to limit
> themselves to only using features that MySpace chooses to support. If
> you let every site pick and choose their own pieces of OpenSocial, you
> will soon end up with a pretty small common denominator.
>
> Here are the current limitations of the MySpace platform (as far as I
> can tell after spending the entire afternoon reading their docs and
> forums):
>
> 1). No way to provide your own gadget XML file (only lets you paste
> the HTML/JS content into a web form).
>
> 2). Can't import your own JS files from your servers. MySpace
> provides their own version of jQuery but what if you want to use GWT
> or any other JS library (or, more importantly, your own libraries).
> It won't suffice to just mash everything into one giant text file and
> copy/paste into a form.
>
> 3). The Persistence and Activity APIs are not implemented. If
> developers have to build and host their own database just for MySpace
> you might as well get rid of Persistence API support from other
> networks. No one wants to work with 2 or more different data models.
>
> This is Google's chance to step in and prevent OpenSocial
> implementations from mirroring what happened with the web browsers
> (and worse).
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