There is one major difference - Cross site scripting and AJAX calls, which you can't exactly do within a browser.
On 9/16/08, Matt Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sure everyone else will give you some fancy reason why Gadgets are > so different and so cool, but the truth is they're just a webpage. > > There is extra JS functionality and some bounding markup to structure > preferences etc, but once inside the document, its just like any other > webpage. Traditionally though a gadget is a minimal page with one > specific purpose, like a form or displaying an image of the day, etc. > Any easy cheat is to just have an IFRAME inside your gadget thats > points to the page you want to render as a "Gadget". > > I'd suggest reading the documentation and just remember, if you've > already done it as a webpage, it can be done as a gadget, don't let > all the hype go to your head. > > http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/dev_guide.html > > Good Luck, > Matt > > > On Sep 16, 3:20 pm, Pedro Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, tell-me what I do to create an gadget. I want to create a > > gadget to sites and igoogle, a guestbook. what I do??? > > Thanks for help, Matt Foster. > > (I am portuguese, and my english is not very good.) > > > > On 15 Set, 20:40, Matt Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, if you can leverage it to serve an HTML page, it can be used in a > > > gadget. Most of my stuff uses PHP/mySQL to serve up data sets as XML > > > and the gadget uses javascript to process the XML and render it as > > > HTML elements inside the gadget's document. > > > > > On Sep 14, 12:31 pm, Pedro Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Its possible to create gadgets to the google sites and igoogle with > > > > php and mysql? > > > > > > Thanks for help > > > > Pedro Silva > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
