This is a response to Bert Bos' review [1] of the Widgets 1.0 Requirements document [2].
COMMENT 22) Is this necessarily the author's choice, or can a server also serve the manifest automatically? I expect the latter. E.g., the Jigsaw server understands JPEG/JFIF as a package format and is able to serve either the package its the metadata (XMP only for now).
I have updated the text of R20 (was R21): "An author may provide a copy of the manifest separately from the package, or, alternatively the server may automatically extract the manifest from a package and serve it upon request"
COMMENT 23) For this feature to be useful, it seems there is an implicit requirement R21a that there is a URL scheme (at least for "http:") that identifies the manifest of a given widget, e.g., by adding ";text/widget-manifest" at the end of the URL.
Thanks for this input; we will defiantly hash this out further in the Widgets 1.0 Spec. -- 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/
