I have found services like ClearSpring and Widgetbox for putting content snippets onto a widget range of social networking web sites, but I would like to build my own widgets without a third party dependency. I have been looking but I have not yet found a good resource to learn how to create widgets/gadgets for multiple sites. It was eas...
Does anyone know how I can best stream a webcam through an iGoogle widget? My ideal is to actually be able to stream locally--that is, get a widget that allows me to display my computer's webcam. Is this possible? (No, I'm not that vain. I'm using a webcam as a Security Camera, and I'd like to be able to view it, streaming, on my iGoo...
When viewing iGoogle, each section is able to be drag-and-dropped to anywhere else on the page and then the state of the page is saved. I am curious on how this is done as I would like to provide this functionality as part of a proof of concept? ...
In igoogle, we can drag & drop the modules and then if we quit the browser and open it again, the position of each module still the same. I have tested couple of things: When not logged in, igoogle store the modules position in my cookies(cache). Because if I clear cache, it goes back to original position. When I logged in, after posit...
Anyone has any suggestions of a framework to help me create an Igoogle/pageflakes/netvibes like application using ruby on rails. I tried using apotomo for a few days, but couldn't make it work at all. If not possible to make using ruby on rails, do u have any suggestions on what to use? Thanks, ...
It opens neither a tab nor a window: the code for a Google Gadget here. If you know 'target="_blank"' from HTML, I am looking for a similar tool for Google Gadgets. More precisely, I cannot understand why the JavaScript piece does not work: window.open("http://www.google.com/"); ...
I want make an 'iGoogle gadgets' that changes the search box on the igoogle page. Here is my code so far: <script type="text/javascript"> function bing(){ document.getElementById('sfrm').action="http://www.bing.com/search"; } </script> <input type="button" onclick="bing()" value="Search"><br>with Bing. I have tested it briefly with ...
I am setting up RSS feeds for searches and journal alerts from the EBSCO database in iGoogle. The widget only allows three results on my iGoogle page but I might have 10 or 12 articles or results that should be fed into the spot. EBSCO said I had to edit the html code to a number larger than 3. However, the code is lengthy and I don't...
I'd like to host a Google Gadget on our production app server which will provide a means of authentication and display some interesting information from our database. Obviously I'd prefer to develop and test this outside of our production site. Is there any means of testing testing a Gadget that is hosted on my dev box? I'm new to ga...
Hi, I have been writing webparts for a while and have written couple of portals too but I feel that the portal pages and webparts that I write using .net framework are much more heavy and browser specific. Can some body guide me to write light weight webparts that are browser independent and do not take long time to load or change zone. ...
My client created paid iGoogle apps but would like to demo them on an iGoogle page for which the user would need to log in to Google with a demo account. On clicking a 'view demo' link, the user would need to be forced out of their own google account and logged into the demo one, then taken to iGoogle. I have been playing around with p...
I'm looking for a dockable windows/panel control in the style of iGoogle. All of the ones I have found so far all have a fixed length on the height of your window/panel but I want to be able to have windows of varying length like iGoogle. The best I have found so far has been a control libarary called BlackLight which does not have the ...
I am using http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/inettuts-with-cookies/ to show the widgets in user's dashboard as igoogle. This plugin is not supporting with the jquery 1.3.2 and jquery-ui-personalized-1.6rc2.min.js. But it works fine with the older jquery version 1.2.6. Does anyone faced this problem? How can i make it to work? ...
I am going to develop a Google Gadget container site, that will be able to host OpenSocial compatible widgets (that I believe are Google gadgets, too, right?). Do you have any guidance where to start? I know that the good start is the iGoogle Developer Home site and that framework what I would like exists - Shindig, but is little clumsy...
does not work in case of IGoogle/Gmail application but the same works on Orkut! My question is is it supported on IGoogle/Gmail? ...
How can i add my application into the iGoogle widgets? ...
This is something that I have noticed the retrieving "owner/viwer" information is not working for past couple of days. Here is the code that can demonstrates the same: <script type="text/os-data" xmlns:os="http://ns.opensocial.org/2008/markup"> <os:OwnerRequest key="owner" fields="name"/> </script> <script type="text/o...
Does it exists a platform or container capable of running google gadgets written for iGoogle. Basicly what I want is to have my private "iGoogle" intranet page. I found out that LifeRay, Sun Java System Portal Server, Weblogic Portal Server and JBoss Portal Server should be capable of running google gadgets and i'd like to know if this...
Hi, I would like to mimic the igoogle like interface in extjs. Any starters ? or any alternatives ? ...
Is Apache Shindig 100% compatible with iGoogle implementation of gadgets.* API and gadget XML specs. best regards ...