[uf-discuss] Widgetbox thinks outside the box...

[David Janes]

Dojo [1], a popular AJAX library, uses something even more XHTML
unfriendly for its widget inclusion:

<div id="..." dojoType="<DojoWidgetName>" widgetId="<ID>"
[<Attribute>="<Value>"]>
</div>

Regards, etc...
David

[1] http://dojotoolkit.org/

On 8/4/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...and develops YAWS (yet another widget syntax).
>
> One that looks like this: <wbx:keywords xmlns:wbx="urn:wbx" value="tech" />
>
> Here's how a "user" might create a "smart blog" post:
>
> http://beta.widgetbox.com/docs/smartblogs/
>
> Essentially, from what I can tell, they use JS to go in and replace
> the <wbx /> instances with iframes that pull content from the
> WidgetBox site (according to this:
> http://forums.widgetbox.com/viewtopic.php?id=13).
>
> While they support rel-tag, they seem to have dispensed with the
> microformats concept after that.
>
> Any thoughts on this? I contacted them to get their side -- seems a
> pity that they wouldn't try working on the hWidget spec if they're
> aware of it, given what they say on their homepage: "This is a work in
> progress. We certainly need more documentation, more widgets, and more
> assistance putting widgets on blogs. Please let us know what we need
> most."