[opensocial] Re: Hosting an Activity feed

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes)
Marco, You don't need to do anything to direct the event to a particular environment; the event always goes to the local environment. Thus, a gadget installed on Hi5 will post to the Hi5 activity feed, and a gadget installed on Orkut will post to the Orkut activity feed.

[opensocial] Re: Security Problems

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes)
Standard disclaimer, IANAG (I Am Not A Googler): As I understand it, user preferences are an iGoogleism, and, generally speaking, will not be supported in most OpenSocial containers. I've heard reports that they work in Orkut, but, unless we here otherwise from the powers that be, you

[opensocial] Re: opensocial not defined for url contenttype

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes)
url type gadgets are not presently supported in OpenSocial. (Dan) On Nov 3, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Amit Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a gadget with url contenttype [http:// code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/fundamentals.html#URL], and let me just say

[opensocial] Re: OK, javascript, I get it. But can I use server-side?

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes)
Actually, that's incorrect. The _IG_Fetch* methods, which are part of the core Google Gadgets api can be used to access remote sites, including your own. See: http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/ reference.html#Core for details. (Dan) On Nov 2, 2007,

[opensocial] Re: Inconsistencies in obtaining and saving opensocial id's.

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes)
Keep in mind that most (all?) JavaScript implementations out there will choke if you try to store or manipulate 64-bit integers (signed or unsigned), so for all JS code, you should treat ids as strings. Of course, since ids are pretty much opaque values, this doesn't really cause any

[opensocial] Re: Why is there no type=url in Orkut and when will it be supported?

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes)
IANAG (I am not a Googler) but, as I understand it, whether or not url type gadgets will be supported in OpenSocial is still to be determined. (Dan) On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:22 AM, siegi wrote: Hi, I have seen that there is an article in the issue list