Hey Dan, This does trigger a few questions but I don't want to hijack the OPs thread. Some questions I would like to get the others feedback on but some are probably better sent to you directly.
Thanks for the post! :-) Vision Jinx On Oct 6, 11:24 am, "Dan (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vision Jinx, > > There is still a focus on iGoogle, but a priority is bringing > compatibility with OpenSocial. I think you'll agree that it's an > important integration, because it will bring a number of new features > to iGoogle and improve the process for adding new features. > > If you have feature requests for gadgets.* or OpenSocial, there is a > discussion group dedicated to discussion of additions to the > specification:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/topics. > Features added to the spec will most likely make it to iGoogle when it > supports OpenSocial (and should appear in the sandbox soon after being > added to the spec). > > Best, > Dan > > On Oct 6, 5:59 am, "Vision Jinx (Guru)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > You can make the suggestion to the Google team by reading this thread > > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/threa... > > > The only issue is use the OpenSocial feature requests and if they feel > > it will benefit all the other social containers it may get added but > > as posted several times by Google any feature requests for the 'legacy > > api' will get their lowest possible priority (deprecated container), > > so if it is something the Open Social community would love you got a > > chance but anything to better our beloved iGoogle well, those requests > > will go unheard more then likely since their focus is no longer on > > iGoogle but the Open Social container instead. > > > Hope that helps :-) > > > Cheers! > > Vision Jinx > > > On Oct 1, 3:11 am, Lavallefils <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > Have just finish my first igoogle gadget (http:// > > > igooglets.blogspot.com/2008/09/birthday-gifts-wall.html) in which i > > > used the collaborative option (<Optional feature="shareable-prefs"/>) > > > where a gadget can be shared and everyone can edit the settings for > > > the gadget. > > > > While working on the collaborative gadget, i found that i was not able > > > to implement additional features that i wanted to add to the gadget. > > > One of the feature was to limit the number of gifts that someone can > > > offer in the birthday_gifts_wall gadget to prevent any abuse. > > > > But the collaborative option makes all the user preferences editable. > > > It would be great if can specify only a set of user preferences as > > > editable and the remaining remains private for each instance of the > > > gadget. In that way, i could have set one of the private preferences > > > to indicate that for a particular instance of the gadget a gift has > > > already been offered and still allow to collaborate by giving a gift > > > which will be seen by all shared gadget via the shared preferences. > > > > Moreover, this will make it possible to do simple two persons turn > > > based game gadget coz each will have his own private data to be ale to > > > check whose turn is and whether he is allowed to play and still play > > > with the other person coz his play will be published to the other > > > player via the shared preferences. And i let u guys/girls out there to > > > try to imagine more things that can be done with this feature. > > > > Well its just an idea i wanted to share with > > > > Cheers > > > Laval --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
