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W3C Proposes Widget 1.0 Standard

micropersuasion.com — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the governing body that determines Internet standards, has a working draft proposing a specification for online widgets.

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  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Standard: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/

    Input: I think the standard's absolute crap the way it's written right now, and that most widgeteers will go on making widgets the way they used to.

    Things immediately I'd change:
    Author, email, description, icon, all of that crap is meta information to a widget. Stick it inside of a meta element with a sensible name: [widget][meta][author]me![/author][email]me@emailplace.net[/email][/meta][/widget]. Widgets also need a body of some kind. Give it a sensible name. Window isn't a sensible name, as some widgets will run inside of other windows, and window models don't nest well. Define some default objects that can be used (circle, rectangle) or import them from SVG.
  • Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed the meta data ought to be wrapped.

    Also, I wonder why a "minimal config file" as listed in the draft *must* specify width/ height. What if I don't care about that and trust that my module will work well with any reasonable widget size?

    And I think they need more samples to get more valuable feedback, because the current specification is hard to understand (not that this is a surprise, coming from the W3C... but the reality is that there are existing widget languages, like Google's, that developers *already use* which the W3C-spec now sort of competes with).
  • crossers, on 07/05/2008, -0/+0I think it is good idea!
    http://www.ocflex.com/
    http://www.trgovinca.org
    http://www.chasr.org/

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