OpenSocial community defines version 0.9
April 17th, 2009 | Published in Google OpenSocial
A new version of the OpenSocial Specification hit the presses yesterday -- packed full of new features to make writing, testing, and maintaining apps much easier. From a streamlined JavaScript API, to a more efficient way to communicate between the app and your server, many of the OpenSocial v0.9 updates aim to make coding and rendering apps blazing fast.
If you're not familiar with the specification process, here's how OpenSocial evolves from one version to the next:
Many of the folks who contributed to OpenSocial v0.9 will be at Google I/O in San Francisco on May 27-28. We love to talk about this stuff, so check out the Google I/O site to sign up and join us.
If you're not familiar with the specification process, here's how OpenSocial evolves from one version to the next:
- New ideas are proposed and discussed on the spec list (which anyone can contribute to).
- Proposals that are selected by the community are prototyped to flesh out the details.
- After a vote, the new version of the spec is published.
- Containers implement support for the new spec.
- App developers start using the new features.
Many of the folks who contributed to OpenSocial v0.9 will be at Google I/O in San Francisco on May 27-28. We love to talk about this stuff, so check out the Google I/O site to sign up and join us.