On Jan 13, 2008 3:37 PM, Chak Nanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been able to check out/build/run/test the Gadget Server and the > sample container. However, I have the following questions/comments: > > - What is the purpose of the javascript/gadgets dir since the features > directory has pretty much the same stuff in it (and gets included as > part of the gadget rendering code)
features/ is where features (which may include javascript files) go. javascript/ is where core javascript (such as the reference in-memory container) go. Currently some of the code in features/ is replicated in javascript/ because we have to fix some dependency issues elsewhere. This will go away shortly. > > - The samplecontainer.html, by default, points to > > http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/117247905274371511495/caja-clickme.xml > - This gadget does not work and genertates several errors > - The caja-clickme.xml gadget code has "<Require > feature="opensocial-samplecontainer"/>" which is confusing. I thinkf > adding support for <Require feature="opensocial-0.[5|6]"/> instead > will make it closer to the spec But this gadget actually does rely on functionality from opensocial-samplecontainer because it's designed to serve as an example. I agree that it probably should be using opensocial-0.6 and the container is what should be running this code, but I believe there are some legitimate reasons for this not being the case currently (probably because IFPC was not implemented until very recently, if I had to guess). Whatever the reason for it, it does look like something that we have the means to fix now, so if someone wants to improve this I don't see any reason why not. > - The caja-clickme.xml gadget code (as expected) has Caja related > code (instead of the "regular" gadget code). This does not seem like > the first gadget a beginner should be seeing. > As a beginner, this is pretty confusing to me since none of the API > docs talk about Caja and the very first gadget that the > samplecontainer.html points to is a Caja gadget which neither the > OpenSocial API/Orkut dev guides talk about. > > I think adding support for <Require feature="opensocial"> in the > Gadget Server and fixing up the samplecontainer.html to include the > appropriate JS files to support OpenSocial gadgets will make it a bit > more easy for someone to get the environment up and running for > hosting basic OpenSocial gadgets (and then move on to hosting caja > enabled gadgets) This makes sense to me as well. The Caja gadget should probably have a separate html file to illustrate how caja gadgets work, and the samplecontainer.html should include more basic gadgets as reference. Feel free to open an issue in jira on this. > > Thanks > Chak >
