Let's go that route -
Edit mode is defined (5.10.2) as "[providing] content and logic that let
a user customize the behavior of the entity". Let's define personalization as
"enabling the user to customize the behavior of the
entity".
Thus, the sentence "the entity MUST support edit mode if it allows
personalization" becomes "the entity MUST support content and logic that
let a user customize the behavior of the entity if it enables the user to
customize the behavior of the entity".
The expanded sentence above is almost a tautology, except for
the fact that entities may enable customization of their behaviors out-of-band.
Thus, an entity that enables the user to customize the behavior of the entity
out-of-band may want NOT to support WSRP content and logic that does the same
(i.e. edit mode), for various reasons.
So, given the above precise definitions, I still think this is a
SHOULD.
Gil
-----Original Message-----
From: Rudnicki Joseph G CONT NSSC
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Sent: Mon, December 02, 2002
18:35
To: 'Gil Tayar';
Subject: RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#164] An
entity SHOULD support help, and CAN su pport edit
Hello,
It
would seem that we have to describe what the edit mode is for
(personalization?) in unambiguous terms somewhere. Sometimes, I am a bit
afraid that we are using a lot of "SHOULDS" to cover uncertainty and ambiguity
when it is up to us to know (or at least act like we know) the right
answer.
Thoughts?
Take
care.
Joe
Rudnicki
-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Tayar
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Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002
11:09 AM
To:
Subject: RE:
[wsrp-wsia] [I#164] An entity SHOULD support help, and CAN su pport
edit
A MUST of this sort would need to really describe what
"personalization" is, and I wouldn't want to go to that route! With a
SHOULD, I think we can go with a vague definition of
"personalization".
-----Original Message-----
From: Rudnicki Joseph G CONT
NSSC [mailto:]
Sent: Mon, December 02,
2002 17:55
To: 'Tamari, Yossi';
Subject: RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#164]
An entity SHOULD support help, and CAN su pport edit
Hello,
Perhaps, "...MUST support edit mode if it allows
personalization?"
Take care.
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Tamari, Yossi
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Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002
1:18 PM
To:
Subject:
RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#164] An entity SHOULD support help, and CAN su pport
edit
I second this. Many entities simply do not have
(need) an edit mode. A "Top business news" portlet may not be
personalizable.
Maybe the wording should be "... SHOULD support
edit mode if it allows personalization".
Yossi.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Tayar
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Sent: Sunday, December 01,
2002 1:13 PM
To:
Subject: [wsrp-wsia] [I#164]
An entity SHOULD support help, and CAN support
edit
Issue: 164
Status:
Active
Topic: interface
Class: Minor_Technical
Raised by: Gil
Tayar
Title: An entity SHOULD support help, and CAN support
edit
Date Added: 1-Dec-2002
Document Section:
v0.85/5.10
Description:
In v0.85, an entity SHOULD
support both edit and help. I think SHOULD for edit is too strong a
recommendation, as it puts a fantastic burden on the portlets. As Help
is very simple to implement, I think the wording should be changed to:
"an entity SHOULD support help, and CAN support
edit".
Gil
Tayar
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