On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Scott Seely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The OSML audience is HTML coders, not JavaScript types. As a result, I > have a hard time seeing the data request tags at > http://wiki.opensocial-templates.org/index.php?title=OpenSocial_Markup#D > ata_Request_Tags changing to match the REST URL syntax. [bcc shindig-dev. This has nothing to do with this list.] I strongly disagree. If you simply look at other platforms with similar capabilities (i.e. normal web pages, or the facebook platform), most apps are a mixture of markup and javascript. While I'm sure there are some people who only know "some HTML", that's a very small percentage of the people who are going to write OpenSocial apps. The current OSML draft proposal is very complicated and will take time to learn -- I find it highly unlikely that the people using it will be doing so because they're not "javascript types". Nobody is saying that it *has to* match the REST URL syntax. We're trying to lay out options and decide what makes the most sense. > FWIW, our primary requirement is that a given OpenSocial REST endpoint > MUST support XRDS. The structure of the endpoint URLs is an orthogonal > discussion. If you like, feel free to kick off a separate thread on that > item-- I can follow up and I think we can reach closure pretty simply. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louis > Ryan > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [email protected] > Subject: [opensocial-and-gadgets-spec] Re: [os-templates] Declarative > Data Definition - requirements > > I believe the issue with XRDS is that it works fine for programmatic > discovery of endpoints. The prefetch/pipelining syntax is declarative > and > therefore if we choose the REST URL syntax it would require that the > referenced endpoints be stable and cross-container compatible. Im > don't know how close the URL structure of MySpaces REST APIs matches > that in > Shindig for example but Im guessing there are some incompatibilities. > As John mentioned and I alluded to on the other thread there was a > proposal > to standardize on a URL format for REST that was cross-container > compatible > without the need for XRDS. but it didn't see much traction. Would > MySpace be > amenable to this? If not then we are left to choose between the RPC > format > or something new. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenSocial and Gadgets Specification Discussion" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > >
