However, we do plan to support preferences for wookie widgets as well. It is our intention that an end user will not know or care about the specification a gadget / widget is using and see uniform functionality.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Matt Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Brian Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just to be clear you have open social gadgets (shindig) and w3c widgets >> (wookie) >> >> When I create a gadget with preferences, a menu to edit those preferences >> is automatically created (in other words I don't have to write any html to >> allow a user to edit the preferences) >> >> When I create a widget with preferences the edit menu it disabled. Is >> there plans to make that edit menu work for both gadgets and widgets? >> > > Unfortunately, this has not been implemented yet. The Wookie connector > needs to support setting/getting preferences from a remote system first. > There are a lot of Wookie committers in Rave, so I hope to see this get > resolved soon. > > >> >> Brian >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matt Franklin <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Erin Noe-Payne < >> [email protected] >> > >wrote: >> > >> > > > With gadgets I'm able to add preferences and then edit those >> > preferences >> > > > from the drop down menu in the upper right corner when displayed in >> > rave. >> > > > >> > > > I'm now trying to use the widget spec and after I add a preference >> the >> > > > 'edit preferences' menu option is disabled. Is this supposed to work >> > for >> > > > widgets or am I just doing something wrong. >> > > > >> > > > Brian >> > > >> > > Hey Brian, I'm not entirely following your question. Are you making a >> > > distinction between gadgets and widgets? When you say you are using >> > > the widget spec, do you mean updating your opensocial gadget xml to >> > > support a new preference? >> > > >> > >> > Or are you referring to Wookie widgets? >> > >>
