Re: Widget packaging spec: make it clear in the Abstract or Intro that P&C widgets != UI controls

[Marcos Caceres]

On 11/7/10 2:16 PM, timeless wrote:

This specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for a class
of software known as widgets. Unlike traditional user interface widgets (e.g.,
buttons, input boxes, toolbars, etc.), widgets as specified in this document
are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored using Web standards
such as HTML5 and then packaged for distributions.


Minor complaint. I think it's possible to author a widget using things
which are not web standards :).


Blasphemy! :)


I don't of course endorse such activity, but i think it is possible.


I've changed to "...using technologies such as..."


--
Marcos Caceres
Opera Software

Re: Widget packaging spec: make it clear in the Abstract or Intro that P&C widgets != UI controls

[timeless]

> This specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for a class
> of software known as widgets. Unlike traditional user interface widgets (e.g.,
> buttons, input boxes, toolbars, etc.), widgets as specified in this document
> are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored using Web 
> standards
> such as HTML5 and then packaged for distributions.

Minor complaint. I think it's possible to author a widget using things
which are not web standards :).

I don't of course endorse such activity, but i think it is possible.

Widget packaging spec: make it clear in the Abstract or Intro that P&C widgets != UI controls

[Arthur Barstow]

Hi All,

During WebApps' November 1 joint meeting with the Protocols and Formats 
WG, I recorded the action below to make sure the Widget Packaging and 
Configuration spec [P&C] was updated to clearly state a "widget", in the 
context of [P&C], is a client-side packaged application and *not* a UI 
control.


To address this issue, Marcos updated the Abstract of the latest 
Editor's Draft and the relevant text now reads:


[[
This specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for a 
class of software known as widgets. Unlike traditional user interface 
widgets (e.g., buttons, input boxes, toolbars, etc.), widgets as 
specified in this document are full-fledged client-side applications 
that are authored using Web standards such as HTML5 and then packaged 
for distributions.

]]

Thanks for raising this issue and the useful meeting in Lyon!

-Regards, Art Barstow

[P&C] http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/

 Original Message 
Subject: 	ACTION-593: P&C spec: make it clear in the Abtract or Intro 
that P&C widgets != UI controls (Web Applications Working Group)

Date:   Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:27:36 +0100
From: 	ext Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker 


Reply-To:   Web Applications Working Group WG 
To: Barstow Art (Nokia-CIC/Boston) 



ACTION-593: P&C spec: make it clear in the Abtract or Intro that P&C widgets != 
UI controls (Web Applications Working Group)

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/actions/593

On: Arthur Barstow
Due: 2010-11-08

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