Ouch! So the entityStateChange is relevant for view mode too? The
Consumer can't assume that state change won't occur in view
mode?
-----Original Message-----
From: Tamari, Yossi
[mailto:]
Sent: Mon, December 02, 2002
20:30
To:
Subject: RE:
[wsrp-wsia] [I#164] An entity SHOULD support help, and CAN su pport
edit
Hi,
For
1, my answer is that an entity may support personalization through its view
mode (for example by simply remembering the last values a user entered in a
text input).
Yossi.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rudnicki Joseph G CONT
NSSC [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, December
02, 2002 6:59 PM
To: 'Gil Tayar';
Subject: RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#164] An
entity SHOULD support help, and CAN su pport edit
Hello,
FWIW. I guess that the questions are:
1.
Are we allowing personalization for an entity that doesn't
support the Edit mode (if so, how)?
2.
Are there other reasons, not personalization, for supporting an
Edit mode?
Take care.
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Tayar
[mailto:]
Sent: Monday, December 02,
2002 11:58 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#164]
An entity SHOULD support help, and CAN su pport edit
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 [mailto:]
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
[mailto:]
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 [mailto:]
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 [mailto:]
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
WebCollage
