Has anyone had experience of any of the other widget engines out there?
Google, Netvibes, Opera, Vista?
I'm wondering which path they went down. XML or HTML?
It would be great if they all standardised on there API's but that's
simply never going to happen :(
I remember looking through the API calls which were available in
Konfabulator and it certainly seem very impressive. I just wish those
API's were as accessible generally in operating systems.
Cheers,
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk
Chris Bowley wrote:
Hi everyone
I have developed a couple of widgets. Widgets are often used to
provide some form of web-related function and offer developers a quick
and easy way of creating a client app which can perform many tasks you
simply cannot do in a web page, such as cross domain XMLHttp requests
and access to the host system. I guess they are a hybrid of web pages
and traditional applications - the 'engine' offers many advantages
(e.g. APIs for certain taks) but also many disadvantages (proprietory!)
Yahoo! widgets are defined in XML with JavaScript interaction whereas
Apple dashboard widgets are basically HTML and JavaScript (Safari is
the engine). I've tried converting a widget I am currently developing
from Yahoo! to Apple and its not straightforward. :-( But then again
Yahoo widgets *can* work on Windows and Mac...
Chris
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*Subject:* RE: [backstage] World Service Schedules
I was wondering what widgets people have played with in the past?
There seems to be so many and little interop between them all.
From my understanding Netvibes and Google widgets seem to be the most
straight forward to develop for? But Yahoo (still prefer Konfabulator
as a name) and Apple (dashboard) have the biggest percentage of the
market. I guess this will also change once Vista launches and has
settled in.
Any thoughts?
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Keith
*Sent:* 26 September 2006 02:52
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [backstage] World Service Schedules
ah, perfect! Just what 'm after, thanks.
I think 'm going to have a crack at doing it as a Yahoo Widget
first, if that's successful I might look at making a better weekly
schedule.
Cheers,
Keith
Living under the Jackboot
Australia is merely an island of Antarctica, and of no further significance
Mario Menti wrote:
On 9/24/06, *Matthew Somerville* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Keith wrote:
> The problem 've run into is that WS schedules don't seem to
provide a
> feed of any sort. Does anyone have any ideas of how I could
get around this?
The BBC Web API - http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/
- should prove
very useful to you, the links you want are probably something
like:
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLocations&channel_id=BBCWrld&format=simple
<http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLocations&channel_id=BBCWrld&format=simple>
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getInfo&channel_id=BBCWrld&format=simple
<http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getInfo&channel_id=BBCWrld&format=simple>
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.schedule.getProgrammes&channel_id=BBCWrld&limit=2&detail=schedule
<http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.schedule.getProgrammes&channel_id=BBCWrld&limit=2&detail=schedule>
(the last giving you the schedule, I'm not sure how far in
advance)
Hope that's helpful. :)
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Hi Keith,
you may also be interested in my "what's on now/next" modules at
http://bbcmodules.co.uk. They're based on the Web API mentioned
by Matthew. The modules don't show anything beyond now/next
though, so won't show you what's on later today..
BTW, Matthew's example of the API schedule call above, without
the "limit" parameter, will show you the schedule for the current
day (i.e. up to midnight today GMT):
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.schedule.getProgrammes&channel_id=BBCWrld&detail=schedule
<http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.schedule.getProgrammes&channel_id=BBCWrld&detail=schedule>
Cheers,
Mario.
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