This is a response to Bert Bos' review [1] of the Widgets 1.0 Requirements document [2].
1.1.2. Standardizable Aspects of a Widget COMMENT 10) Ad "The APIs that authors can use": Should this mention CC/PP, Delivery Context and Media Queries? It's probably a good idea to re-use existing vocabularies in designing these APIs.
We have yet to evaluate the appropriateness of any of those technologies listed to what is actually used in the wild (eg. I have not seen any widgets use CC/PP or make effective use of Media Queries). As you have suggested, there are currently a number of working groups looking at the issue of APIs for accessing device services/capabilities. We currently feel that specifying APIs that access services on devices are out of scope for WAF but will continue to monitor what other groups are doing (particularly those at the W3C and OMA in regards to Delivery Contexts). -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2007Feb/0131.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-widgets-reqs-20070209/
