Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-17 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Jonas, One level of indirection is a very small price to pay for much more implementation flexibility. But like I pointed out earlier, and if I understand the problem correctly, your suggested solution will

RE: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-16 Thread ivan.demarino
API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Landspurg thomas.landsp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am a little bit late in the debate, but I agree with scott proposal and arguments. Ideally the widget itself shoud not be aware of HTML5

RE: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-13 Thread ivan.demarino
] On Behalf Of Jonas Sicking Sent: 12 February 2009 19:20 To: timel...@gmail.com Cc: Scott Wilson; public-webapps@w3.org; Ian Hickson Subject: Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage timeless wrote: I think the problem here is that there's too much syntactic sugar

Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas Landspurg
, SE1 9BB. -Original Message- From: public-webapps-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-webapps-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jonas Sicking Sent: 12 February 2009 19:20 To: timel...@gmail.com Cc: Scott Wilson; public-webapps@w3.org; Ian Hickson Subject: Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs

Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-13 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Landspurg thomas.landsp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am a little bit late in the debate, but I agree with scott proposal and arguments. Ideally the widget itself shoud not be aware of HTML5 storage implementation, even if the widget storage API

Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-11 Thread Scott Wilson
Hi Jonas, We run the widgets from a server, which a web application renders into the browser window using iFrames (a typical web widget architecture). Each widget in its iFrame calls the Widget API getPref/ setPref methods, which are implemented in a locally injected JS library. This

RE: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-11 Thread ivan.demarino
[mailto:scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 February 2009 12:26 To: DE MARINO Ivan RD-ILAB-LON Cc: jo...@sicking.cc; public-webapps@w3.org; UDDIN Rafel RD-ILAB-LON; TIBBETT Richard RD-ILAB-LON Subject: Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage Hi Ivan, I wasn't rejecting

Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-11 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jonas, We run the widgets from a server, which a web application renders into the browser window using iFrames (a typical web widget architecture). Each widget in its iFrame calls the Widget API

Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-10 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Scott Wilson scott.bradley.wil...@gmail.com wrote: This is a pretty radical change; I can certainly see the logic of it in terms of reducing spec overlap. However, it does presume that semantically a widget preference is the same as client-side storage. In our

Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-04 Thread Scott Wilson
This is a pretty radical change; I can certainly see the logic of it in terms of reducing spec overlap. However, it does presume that semantically a widget preference is the same as client-side storage. In our implementation, storage is definitely server-side, so this mechanism would not

Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-03 Thread Marcos Caceres
Hi Ivan, All, On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ivan.demar...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: Hello. After some emails with Marcos Caceres we reached the conclusion that part of the Specs of Widget APIs (http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/) overlaps/clashes with the HTML5 standard draft

RE: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage

2009-02-03 Thread ivan.demarino
RD-ILAB-LON; zze-Igloo ALI M ext RD-ILAB-LON; public-webapps@w3.org; linuxco...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Widget API Set/GetPreferences vs. HTML5 Key/Value Pairs Storage Hi Ivan, All, On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ivan.demar...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: Hello. After some emails