WidgetEmbedding

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This document includes information about WebApp's Widget Embedding deliverable which is briefly defined in the charter as:

Widgets Embedding: a mechanism to allow embedding of packaged applications within other Web content, such as referencing via the HTML object element.

For the context of this deliverable, a widget can be: a packaged web application à la Widget Packaging and Configuration that may be stalled as a stand-alone application or embedded in some container such as a Web browser or chrome-less Web run-time engine; a set of resources that can be packaged (in some way other than the ZIP and XML manifest defined in P&C) and installed in a Web browser; something else. In other words, the scope and definition of widget in this context is still very much a Work In Progress ...

Contents 1 Problem Statement 2 Resources 3 Threads on various mail lists 4 Use Cases and Requirements 5 Specification Work

Problem Statement

ToBeWritten ...

Resources

Resources related to the general topic of Widgets, Web Application Packaging and Web Application Embedding (alphabetical order):

• Articles and Blogs
  • Installable web apps and interoperability ; Bruce Lawson 23-June-2011
  • Web Apps: a snapshot of the standards landscape; by Scott Wilson (7-Feb-2011); includes comparisons of some open web application packaging formats (W3C Widgets, Open Social, Chrome Extensions, etc.)

• Google:
  • Converting Chrome Installed Web Apps into W3C Widgets; blog by Scott Wilson; 17-Feb-2011
  • Formats: Manifest Files; Chrome Extensions
  • Google: Installable Web Apps
  • Extensions, Packaged Apps, and Hosted Apps in the Chrome Web Store

• Mozilla:
  • MDN-> Doc Center -> Open Web Applications
    • Getting Started
    • The Manifest
    • The JavaScript API
    • Creating and Application Store
  • Mozilla Labs
    • Open Web Applications
    • Application Manifest
    • Manifest wiki; includes description of the manifest's properties, capabilities and manifest signing
  • Blogs, News, etc.
  • Prototype of an Open Web App Ecosystem
  • HTML Resource Packaging; Justin Lebar

• Oembed:
  • Oembed specification
  • Blog post describing use of oEmbed

• Opera:
  • What's in an Opera extension?
  • Opera Extensions

• W3C:
  • Widget Packaging and Configuration

• Wookie:
  • Wookie: Apache Incubator Project
  • Building Widgets with Wookie

Threads on various mail lists

Discussions threads on public-webapps related to the general subject of widget embedding (most recent thread first):

• running widgets in a regular web page; 26-Nov-2010; Peter Dekkers
• Mozilla Open Apps; 20-Oct-2010; Mike Hanson; Mozilla Labs
• Chrome manifest vs. W3C Widget config.xml; 27-May-2010; Lachlan Hunt
• Installable web apps; 24-May-2010; Aaron Boodman; WHATWG list
• Zip vs GZip Tar; 28-Apr-2010; Gregg Tavares

Use Cases and Requirements

ToBeWritten; See Widgets v2 list

Specification Work

Currently, WebApps has not done any specification work for this deliverable.