2009/11/2 Magnus Olsson
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From: Magnus Olsson
Sent: den 2
november 2009 16:46
To: 'public-webapps@...'
Subject:
Viewmode related issues
For the agenda
discussion...
1. Widget
view modes (http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-vmmf/). In section 3.2 "Presentation properties" it says the
default view-mode of 'floating' is sized controlled by the widget. Is this
correct? To me the size control for 'floating' should be the same as for
'application', i.e. "dependent on widget or user agent, the actual width and
height may be overidden by the user agent". Since the user agent controls the
layout of the widget desktop it also must be able to ultimately control the
sizing of the widgets, right? Othervise, what should it do with a widget not
fitting to a specific layout, not display it at all? Maybe this is described
somewhere and I just didn't see it...\
I will leave it to Marcin to comment.
2.
Widgets API (http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/). I don't see any methods for changing the view-mode from
within the widget (requirement 37, http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-reqs-20090430/#display-mode-api-and-events). Is it there without me finding it or will it come in a
later version (or has it been removed as requirement)? I hope it is there (or
will come) because for many use cases it's essential to move to/from full-screen
display programatically. Also I think it's important to get an event when the
user agent has changed view-mode and/or width/height of an widget but maybe that
is also coming in a later version?
This should be defined in the view modes spec, not in the interface spec.
3. It
would be very nice to be able to write a widget desktop in SVG (or in HTML if
someone would consider that ;-). To enable this it must be a way to access a
Widget API from the HTML/SVG JS context and to have position, size, viewmode
control through this API. Is this something that is considered by the
WG?
Yes, this is certainly withing scope. However, it is not clear what outside of the Window interface would be required? Can you list some requirement for us to consider.
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