When is it OpenSocial, and when it is just a gadget? - OpenSocial Application Development

Message from discussion When is it OpenSocial, and when it is just a gadget?

Alejandro Rivero

More options Dec 3 2007, 10:22 am

From: Alejandro Rivero <Al.Riv...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:22:23 -0800 (PST)

Local: Mon, Dec 3 2007 10:22 am

Subject: When is it OpenSocial, and when it is just a gadget?

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After a couple months, there are already some repositories of
"opensocial applications" listing a good bunch:

http://www.opensocialapplist.com/
http://opensocialdirectory.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.google-info.net/osocial/directory/index.php

my surprise is at least one half of the listed apps do not use the
opensocial javascript object at all. It seems all they require is a
way to store defaults: they are just "igoogle" apps, not opensocial.

I wonder, could the people uploading these applications to indicate
somewhere (in the code comments, or in the listing entry of the
repositories, or both) what parts of opensocial API do they use and
what parts do they intend to use? Think that container developers will
be trying your apps in their containers; it is not sense to attempt as
a test an application that does not use the part of the API you are
testing.

Also it could be good coding style to mark lines which are now done
with your own data format but you expect to evolve into specific
OpenSocial Data API formats.

Thanks

Alejandro
(who is trying a container for BOINC based websites).

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