I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy - Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, 1960

We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

President Ronald Reagan - Speech to Temple Hillel, 1984

For the Maqetta Designer project, we use OpenAjax Metadata (OAM) to provide information about the widgets that can be dropped on the page – mainly the widget content, required resources and properties.

We stick to the spec and keep the metadata files “toolkit-agnostic”, by storing Maqetta-specific widget metadata elsewhere. Ideally, another product that implemented the OAM spec could make use of our metadata files.

Lately, though, we’ve started to transition to using the AMD loader for Dojo 1.7; and we found that the existing OAM files didn’t really work that well with AMD.

For that reason, we had to deviate from the OAM spec and add extensions to support AMD and other module specs. Read on here for a detailed explanation of the changes and some examples.