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Posted to dev@shindig.apache.org by Sean Lin <se...@gmail.com> on 2009/04/02 05:22:27 UTC

container questions

Hi,

 I have a couple of questions:

 

1.       Will adding a jquery feature to allow for <Require
feature="jquery"/> cause any problems with gadget rendering?

 

2.       I'm trying to get VS to recognise OS gadget XML files. The 2 files
that define them are the following?

 
http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/0.8/gadgets/gadgets-exte
nded.xsd

http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/0.8/gadgets/gadgets.xsd

 

Cheers,

Sean


Re: container questions

Posted by ar...@leroymerlin.fr.
"Sean Lin" <se...@gmail.com> writes:

> Well each gadget does not have to use it, hence the <Require> option. But
> then again it's up to the developer just to put in a script tag if they
> really want to use jquery to create their gadget. Just thought it might
> render faster if the container was serving it directly. 
>
> When you said it just works on your container, I'm guessing you have
> everything running on a single domain.
>

Not always. We sometimes separate the shindig server and the main
application server. But yes, we basically control every gadget's
content.

Did anybody on this list tried to factorize such things as jQuery ?
When I was talking about concerns, I hinted at our own performance
issues: having 5 gadgets on a page each loading jquery plus a handful
of plugins put IE6 on his knees.

More generally, I'd rather have injection of such services in the
container. I know however that container/gadget communication may be
hard for different origins. 

-- 
Arnaud Bailly, PhD
Leroy-Merlin - SIF - Projet Portail



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RE: container questions

Posted by Sean Lin <se...@gmail.com>.
Well each gadget does not have to use it, hence the <Require> option. But
then again it's up to the developer just to put in a script tag if they
really want to use jquery to create their gadget. Just thought it might
render faster if the container was serving it directly. 

When you said it just works on your container, I'm guessing you have
everything running on a single domain.

-----Original Message-----
From: arnaud.bailly@leroymerlin.fr [mailto:arnaud.bailly@leroymerlin.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, 2 April, 2009 3:15 PM
To: shindig-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: container questions

"Sean Lin" <se...@gmail.com> writes:


>
> 1.       Will adding a jquery feature to allow for <Require
> feature="jquery"/> cause any problems with gadget rendering?
>

We already do this in our container: it just works. I have concerns
however about page bloat: importing jquery in each gadget does not
seem very efficient. Isn't there a way to factorize this ? Using RPC
maybe ?

Regards,
-- 
Arnaud Bailly, PhD
Leroy-Merlin - SIF - Projet Portail



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Re: container questions

Posted by ar...@leroymerlin.fr.
"Sean Lin" <se...@gmail.com> writes:


>
> 1.       Will adding a jquery feature to allow for <Require
> feature="jquery"/> cause any problems with gadget rendering?
>

We already do this in our container: it just works. I have concerns
however about page bloat: importing jquery in each gadget does not
seem very efficient. Isn't there a way to factorize this ? Using RPC
maybe ?

Regards,
-- 
Arnaud Bailly, PhD
Leroy-Merlin - SIF - Projet Portail



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