Hi Dan,

Thanks for the clarification. I will give this <Optional> tag another
try soon.

Jerome

On Aug 28, 11:37 pm, "Dan (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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?
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