I am confused, I can't tell me W_adget from me G_idget.
Microsoft isn't failing either, don't have the turnover figure in my head and can't be bothered to look it up. R On 29/06/07, Sean Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard Hyett wrote: > This reminds me of the different approaches taken to Widgets/Gadgets. > Last time I was on the Yahoo Gadget site they were inviting me to > download their widgets, there were three logos, OSX, WIN and Linux, a > widget for each OS. I'm think you may be confusing the underlying Widget Application rather than the widget. In the Yahoo Widget Engine widget's are written once and work across operating systems that run the widget engine, IIRC. > No wonder Yahoo are a failing company. Are they? News to me, last I heard they were posting a profit and turning over >$4billion. http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/earnings.cfm > Google invite users to embed widgets in their own page. I think you're confusing the 2 products here. Yahoo widgets run through the Yahoo Widget Engine on your desktop. > I suppose this is the client - server argument again. Which client-server argument is this? Surely any interactive product such as this relies on a client-server relationship somewhere in the chain? > As a developer I would far prefer to embed different searches in > web pages than offer visitors a plugin no matter how good an > icon file I could come up with. > > Having said that I use the Wikipedia plugin all the time, though that's > the only one I do use apart from Google. I can't see that changing but > you never know. Sorry, I definitely put my wrong trousers on today, I don't really understand what you're getting at here by saying 'embedding searches in web pages'. Are you saying you would rather build search functionality within a website rather than offer the added feature of searching from IE's/FF's search toolbar? In which case I'd have to say that whilst _you_ may not like this, many others do and there';s nothign to stop you doing both anyway. We must remember that just because _we_ do things (or not) in certain ways does not mean that wider population does likewise. Seán - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
