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
> >
>

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