Hi Anand, Typically another user can see an OpenSocial application that you have installed in two ways 1. On your Profile view, along side other OpenSocial Apps you have installed. Here the application has limited real estate. 2. On the Canvas view where the Application occupies complete space. Here the application has much more real estate.
A user who visits your profile page would see number of applications that you have installed. Each of this applications should show limited but useful information to the user (owing to the limited real estate). If this user finds some thing useful in an application he/she would interact with the application. As a result of this interaction (say clicking a button or a link), the application can move to the Canvas View, to show user much richer content. Hence, if you have a application which has very rich content, typically you would like to code differently for two views. One version of your code would show less richer and concise contents for Profile page and another code would show much richer content for the Canvas page. But, if there is no such need to distinguish between the richness of your application, you can just have one code for both the views. About the "message board" related query, I am not very clear, Do you mean activity stream (updates)? If you meant activity streams, this is another way to make other users aware, what you did with a particular application. It is a good way of communicating with other users who do not visit directly visited your application. I am using Orkut as a container to explain things here. regards, Rohit On May 5, 11:57 pm, Anand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While coding for an app, should I only write code for the application > page alone, or should I also write code for the message board that > appears below the 'add app' page for the apps that currently exist? > Should I also write the code for what appears on the user profile > page? > > Sorry, I am a bit confused about this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
