OSS Watch are working with Scott Wilson and his colleagues at the University of Bolton on the Apache Wookie (Incubating) project. Since I’ve been busy on other Wookie things today I’ve not had time to write a blog post, so I’m just going to steal one of Scotts (well, I say “steal” but it’s under creative commons on Scott’s blog so it’s not really stealing).
Apache Wookie passes W3C Widgets conformance
After a marathon code sprint [well done Scott - RG] Apache Wookie (Incubating) now passes all 166 W3C Widgets conformance tests, the third application to reach a 100% pass rate.
Two other applications – the Aplix Web Runtime engine and the BONDI reference implementation for Windows Mobile – have also been able to successfully pass all the conformance tests. Several others are also approaching a full pass rate, as can be seen on the W3C implementation report.
Not only is this good news for Wookie its also good news for W3C, as more successful implementation helps the progress of the specification. Also, open source implementations can also help other developers build interoperable applications by reusing code. I hope in future we’ll be able to make the widget parser in Wookie distributable as a standalone library as well as part of the Wookie widget engine, to help with this process.
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