Hi Jerome, Actually, in my rudimentary testing the gadget worked fine in the legacy iGoogle, even with the rewriting parameters. I suspect this change was made to allow backwards compatibility for gadgets with new features, similar to how the extra content section behaves when specifying views.
Best, Dan On Aug 28, 2:19 pm, "Jerome (Guru)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Wouldn't the <Optional> node breaks the XML validation on the legacy/ > production iGoogle? I believe I have some issues on a few gadgets > caused by the rewrite new functionality (missing images when using the > gadget in the sandbox). I have not tried to tackle the problem yet, > but I was under the assumption that using the Orkut blog solution > would break the gadgets in iGoogle. > > Is the rewrite still being tuned up and we can expect a solution from > Google's end, or do we need to put time in making sure our legacy > gadgets function fine on the sandbox? > > Thanks, > > Jerome > > On Aug 28, 9:49 pm, "Dan (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > It looks like the sandbox is rewriting the URL to your Flash file (in > > order to use Google's caching proxy), and this seems to be causing > > errors. What you'll need to do to disable the rewriting in the sandbox > > is add the Flash file URL to a list of content-rewrite exclusions as > > explained > > here:http://orkutdeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/06/rewriting-returns-to-sandb... > > (note that it's a post on the orkut developer blog, but the orkut and > > iGoogle sandboxes share the same gadget rendering code). > > > Best, > > Dan > > > On Aug 26, 10:06 am, mlisle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm using the iGoogle Developer Sandbox, and my gadget includes an > > > embedded Meebo widget... which is just a flash object embedded with > > > <embed> > > > > When I view the gadget in the older iGoogle, it works fine. However, > > > when I view it in the developer sandbox, the meebo chat widget is > > > greyed out. > > > > You can install my gadget > > > athttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/gadgets/googlegadget/utexaslibstabs.xml > > > if you'd like to see it first-hand. > > > > Any ideas what might be causing this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
