Marcos,
A few weeks ago we talked about how a widget author could add widget-
specific metadata (e.g. initial settings) to the config file [1].
I think providing a declarative means to provide this metadata is
consistent with existing Req #14 - Widget Metadata [2]. Additionally,
at least some of the Widget User Agents in the Widgets Landscape
document also support this functionality [3].
The type of syntax to support this would be something like:
<preference name="..." value="..."/>
And the A&E's getPreference method [4] would return the value
attribute's value.
I realize an author can define all of its widget-specific metadata in
script but having the data defined in the config file is consistent
with some existing WUAs.
WDYT?
-Regards, Art Barstow
[1] <http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/webapps/20090202>
[2] <http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-reqs/#r14.-widget-metadata>
[3] <http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-land/#metadata0>
[4] <http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/#the-getpreference-method>
