I agree, what is the use of them having open social if you can "use" open social.
On Feb 5, 10:32 pm, Alex Epshteyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TheMySpaceplatform, unveiled today, has too many limitations and > differences from the OS spec 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 > forceMySpace(and the other networks) to comply with the spec. Allow > me to explain: > > As it stands now,MySpaceis 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 thatMySpacechooses 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 theMySpaceplatform (as far as I > can tell after spending the entire afternoon reading their docs and > forums): > > 1). No way to host your own gadget XML file (for now, it only lets you > paste the HTML/JS content into a web form). You also have to enter > code for each surface separately. > > 2). Can't import external JS files from your servers. MySpace > provides their own version of jQuery but if you want to use GWT or any > other JS library (or, more importantly, your own libraries), you're > out of luck. I guess you have to mash everything into one giant > file. Furthermore,Myspaceis crippling your ability to write > Javascript by running your code through Caja even though it's already > in an iframe. > > 3). The Persistence and Activity APIs are not implemented. If > developers have to build and host their own database just forMySpace > 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). > > (Note: this is a cross-posting > fromhttp://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api/t/025e87bd6869696f > I wanted to also share my thoughts here as there isn't much activity > on the OpenSocial forum) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" 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-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
