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Simply put: it’s out! Go check it out, along with the brand new /specs/ page on netvibes.org!

This specification is one important that we’ve meant to add to our .org website for a long time. Netvibes.org started as a repository for all our open-sourced code, among which the whole UWA code: its JavaScript Runtime and PHP libraries along with full in-code documentation, and even the fully-working Exposition server – the very same one that runs on our servers. All these tools were placed under GNU LGPL license, so as to facilitates the spread of this code to other projects and platforms.

For those willing to take part in the future of UWA, we also set up a public Trac tool for those who’d wish to submit an idea or a bug, or simply the changes to the public Subversion server.

The main point of all these releases was (and still is) to help UWA spread to other, yet-unsupported platforms. Being compatible with all major widget platforms (iGoogle, Windows Vista, Apple Dashboard, Live.com, iPhone, Opera, blogs, MySpace, etc.) sure is a great thing, but there are still many websites and widget engines users that could profit from the huge choice offered by our Ecosystem - and we can’t possibly handle them all

So the next natural step is to publish the UWA specification for all to see – and, mostly, platforms implementors. The current document is more of an Editor’s Draft than a real Working Draft (some sections are still missing, for instance), but this is as much details as we can give about the inner functioning of UWA without giving you the source-code – which we already give out anyway

We chose to license it under the Creative Commons BY-SA license, which should give enough freedom as to how you use it. But most importantly, we’d like to hear back from you about this document! This specification documents UWA 1.2, which is still very much in development, and not quite deployed yet, so this is your chance to participate directly in the evolution of the Universal Widget API!

See you on the forum!

Tags: document, specification, uwa

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