On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Mike Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> 2008/7/28 Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Mike Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>> 2008/7/28 Cassie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>> > Well I think it depends on who gets to make the cajoled vs non-cajoled
>>> > decision. Long term my thinking was that gadget authors won't get to
>>> choose.
>>> > Probably 99% of them will be cajoled and some certain white listed or
>>> > special gadgets will stay non-cajoled if the container wants them to.
>>> > Because the container decides then the url is the best place for the
>>> switch.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On the other hand, if the gadget developer gets to choose whether or
>>> not
>>> > they are cajoled then the logic should be turned on by a require tag.
>>> Short
>>> > term maybe this makes more sense... so that the developers can test it
>>> out
>>> > in live containers? Or - you could say that they can already test
>>> cajoling
>>> > out in shindig... so maybe they don't need control.
>>> >
>>> > Anyway, so I was basically thinking that - container choice = url and
>>> > gadget choice = require.
>>> > So, who gets the power? :)
>>> >
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>>> Ok, so a gadget should be cajoled if the container mandates it, or the
>>> gadget requests it?
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>>> Right now, the meaning seems to be
>>>  url=1 -> this iframe needs to have the caja runtime JS loaded
>>>  <require feature-caja> -> the gadget source requires cajoling
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>> My take on the issue is that both solutions suck.
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>> The caja feature is useful if the goal is to have gadgets identify
>> themselves as safe for cajoling, but if that's true then then caja url
>> parameter is unnecessary. Containers can then make the decision as to
>> whether they cajole the gadget, keep it in a sandboxed iframe, or reject it
>> entirely.
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>> However, the "caja" feature is non-standard. It was only created as a
>> workaround to avoid writing more code for it in Shindig.
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>> A far more appropriate solution is probably to enhance the content
>> rewriter that Louis has written to support cajoling as one of the rewriting
>> options.
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> Where does that code live?
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.../gadgets/rewrite/...


> How would that option be specified?
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I think gadgets should be flagged as cajolable externally. Anything else
would require spec changes or being non-standard.


> Who would enhance the rewriter?
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Whoever has the time and inclination.


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>>> > - Cassie
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>>> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Mike Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >wrote:
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>>> >> So in an environment that wants to serve both cajoled and uncajoled
>>> >> gadgets from the same gadget-server, the caja=1 switch is going to be
>>> what
>>> >> distinguishes the two long term?
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>>> >> 2008/7/28 Cassie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>> >> btw - if we are confident, or if you just want to try out only needing
>>> the
>>> >>> caja=1 in the url, then the opensocial-current/feature.xml line 23
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>>> >>> needs to be commented in. Then gadgets don't need the require.
>>> >>>
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>>> >>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Cassie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> >>>> If we were completely confident in caja then the require feature
>>> >>>> wouldn't be needed. caja would be included and turned on all of the
>>> time.
>>> >>>> When caja=0 the gadget would not be cajoled and so caja shouldn't
>>> have any
>>> >>>> affect. If caja=1 then the gadget would be cajoled and caja would do
>>> all its
>>> >>>> magic goodness.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> So... are we confident that caja is ready to handle both cajoled and
>>> >>>> non-cajoled gadgets without causing any issues?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> - Cassie
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>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Mike Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> Shindiggers,
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> There are two gates a gadget has to pass through to get cajoled
>>> right
>>> >>>>> now.
>>> >>>>> (1) The enableCaja bit specified via ?caja=1 in the URL which adds
>>> the
>>> >>>>> CajaContentRewriter to the rewriter chain.
>>> >>>>> (2) The <Require feature="caja"> specified in the gadget spec which
>>> >>>>> causes caja.js and friends to be loaded.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> There doesn't seem to be any case where (1) should be different
>>> from
>>> >>>>> (2).  Can we get rid of the need for both?
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I don't see an easy way for the content rewriter to be
>>> conditionally
>>> >>>>> added based on the presence of a <Require>
>>> >>>>>  element, since that decision seems to be made before the gadget
>>> spec
>>> >>>>> is parsed, but I don't know the code that well.  Any ideas?
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> cheers,
>>> >>>>> mike
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