Again, this is there so that gadgets take ownership of the dom size they
are given to render in.
You likely have a margin/padding that is unintentionally pushing the
content of the html/body outside of the bounds of what is available for
your gadget, otherwise the html/body inside the iframe would not be
scrolling.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Darren Bond <db...@globalcad.com> wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Relating to the unwanted scrollbars, our developer has come up with the
> following findings:-
>
> In the beginning of each gadget Shindig library puts some small bit of CSS
> code. It looks like this:
>
> html, body {
> height: 100%;
> overflow: auto;
> width: 100%;
> }
>
> It's hard to say why this gets injected. For me it looks unnecessary to
> have
> such properties for each gadget by default. iGoogle doesn't inject anything
> similar and when I tried to put this piece of code on iGoogle (in Firebug)
> same scrollbars appeared there. The problem can be easily solved by
> resetting these properties back to default in the gadget's body. Of course
> it is valid only for those gadgets whose code can be controlled by us.
> Third-party gadgets which happened to have those scrollbars will keep them.
>
> Ryan are you able to shed some light on this injection of css code and
> whether it can be removed?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Darren
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Baxter [mailto:rbaxte...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 24 September 2013 18:34
> To: us...@shindig.apache.org
> Cc: dev@shindig.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Rendered Gadget Display Scrollbars unlike iGoogle
>
> Can you reproduce the issues the sample common container in Shindig?
> Or better yet build us a simple container that can reproduce the
> issue?
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Darren Bond <db...@globalcad.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Unfortunately we're still struggling with this issue.
> >
> > Can anyone give us some helpful pointers where we might be going wrong
> with
> > the code below?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Darren
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darren Bond [mailto:db...@globalcad.com]
> > Sent: 19 September 2013 09:24
> > To: 'dev@shindig.apache.org'; 'us...@shindig.apache.org'
> > Subject: RE: Rendered Gadget Display Scrollbars unlike iGoogle
> >
> > Hi Stanton/Dan,
> >
> > Thank you for your helpful replies. I've received the following feedback
> > from our developer:-
> >
> > Some gadgets get rendered correctly such as the TODO list gadget
> > (http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml) but others don't.
> >
> > For example, we have problems with the Dictionary gadget
> > (http://www.gstatic.com/ig/modules/dictionary/dictionary_v2.xml)
> > The YouTube gadget (www.gstatic.com/ig/modules/youtube/v3/youtube.xml)
> > appears fickle in that sometimes vert/horiz scroll bars appear under home
> > view and at other times not.
> >
> > All of them have <Require feature="dynamic-height"/> in their
> specification.
> > We use CSS padding for the html div tag that holds iframe coming from
> > Shindig. Looking at the JavaScript source code used to render the
> gadget:-
> >
> > CommonContainer.renderGadget = function (gadget, contentHolder,
> > userPreference) {
> > var gadgetURL = gadget.Url;
> > var el = $(contentHolder).get(0);
> > var params;
> > if (userPreference == null) {
> > params = { userPrefs: cacheDefaultUserPreference[gadgetURL] };
> > } else {
> > params = { userPrefs: userPreference };
> > }
> > params["view"] = "home";
> > if (gadget.viewType == GadgetViewTypes.Canvas) {
> > params["view"] = "canvas";
> > }
> > params[osapi.container.RenderParam.WIDTH] = '100%';
> > var gadgetSite = CommonContainer.newGadgetSite(el);
> > CommonContainer.navigateGadget(gadgetSite, gadgetURL, {}, params);
> > defaultUserPreference = {};
> > return gadgetSite;
> > };
> >
> > Any thoughts as to how we can improve things?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Darren
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: siever...@gmail.com [mailto:siever...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Stanton
> > Sievers
> > Sent: 18 September 2013 16:34
> > To: us...@shindig.apache.org; dev@shindig.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Rendered Gadget Display Scrollbars unlike iGoogle
> >
> > + dev list
> >
> > Are you using dynamic height or width features in your gadget?
> >
> > Are the height and width properties set in your ModulePrefs? If so, what
> > are they set to and are both containers honoring those values when
> > rendering?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Stanton
> > On Sep 18, 2013 4:31 AM, "Darren Bond" <db...@globalcad.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All, We have a Shindig implementation and render our gadgets on
> a
> >> page using an ASP.NET wrapper. When comparing how our gadgets render
> in
> >> comparison with the same gadgets on iGoogle, we tend to get content
> >> shifting and the introduction of vertical/horizontal scrolls bars.
> iGoogle
> >> avoids these issues somehow. A sample screenshot can be seen here
> >> http://download.globalcad.com/Gadget_Appearance.png Does anyone know
> of
> >> a
> >> workaround? Many thanks. Darren
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
