Hi Scott, yes, we've already tried Opera widgets - unfortunately many of them are broken. We haven't found any W3C repository - the only idea we came up with - converting iGoogle, Netvibes, Opera to W3C to create some initial database. A student of us is working on a conversion tool, tackling peculiarities of different formats. Currently he is evaluating which percentage of Netvibes / iGoogle widgets the tool will manage to convert. First results were pretty promising.
Best Regards, Olexiy --- Chemnitz University of Technology Department of Computer Science Distributed and Self-organizing Systems Group Straße der Nationen 62 D-09107 Chemnitz Germany E-Mail: [email protected] WWW: http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/people/chudnovskyy Phone: +49 371 531 39146 > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Wilson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 9:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Extending widgets towards Inter-Widget-Communication > > > On 9 Jul 2012, at 08:50, Olexiy Chudnovskyy wrote: > > > Hi Ross, > > > >> > >> I suspect the best way to proceed is to start out extracting your > >> code > > into the > >> stand-alone project we've discussed. It would be best to do that in > >> stages contributing patches directly to Wookie as you go. This will > >> enable us to evaluate individual contributors patches and recognise > >> individual merit as appropriate. It will make things a little slower > >> to start with as you will > > need > >> someone here to submit your patches to version control. However, > >> since nobody here is likely to work on it in the short term this > >> shouldn't pose > > much > >> of a problem. > >> The advantage is that we would be able to give commit rights in > > recognition > >> of the work being done during the porting. > >> > > > > I think this is the best option. As soon as we have IWC-Enchancer > > extracted out of Wookie I will come back to you. > > > > One other question - do you know if and where we can find some > > real-life W3C widgets to experiment with? Are there any widget > > repositories existing on the Web or being developed in other projects > (beside OMELETTE)? > > Opera have some: > > http://widgets.opera.com/ > > .. though not all are W3C-compliant > > A lot of the other widgets around seem to be locked into mobile > operator/handset vendor app stores e.g. Vodafone, Samsung rather than > publicly downloadable via the browser > > > > > > Best Regards, > > Olexiy > > >
