They appear to be working in the sandbox. I don't think that's likely the problem; Blogger seems to be having trouble with the XML specification, not any of the code; it's not that the gadget is showing up blank, it's that the gadgets can't even be added because of a Blogger block.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 21:34, Vision Jinx (Guru) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Caleb, > > Just a quick suggestion, try your affected gadgets in the sandbox and > see if you have an issue with them. > > I was having a few issues with certain gadgets in the sandbox (works > fine out side the sandbox and in syndication) and the same issues I > had were very similar to the ones gadget users reported trying it on > Blogger (eg. blank gadget and other things). > > Long story short, but Dan had confirmed my suspicions that Blogger is > using the sandbox API or something like that which is causing some > gadgets to break in Blogger. > > See if that is a cause. > > Cheers! > Vision Jinx > > On Oct 15, 8:11 pm, "Caleb Eggensperger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some users have complained recently that they can't add my gadgets in >> Blogger. I've confirmed that attempting to add them them gives this >> error message: >> >> > We are sorry, this gadget appears to be broken. >> > This gadget has errors, and cannot be used until fixed. Learn more >> >> The "Learn More" link goes >> tohttp://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=98380. It implies that >> there's either an incorrect XML spec or the gadget is inaccessible >> from Blogger. The gadgets work in iGoogle, so the first doesn't seem >> correct, and the XML files are reliably hosted, so the latter doesn't >> seem likely either. >> >> The gadgets in question >> arehttp://calebegg.com/countdown.xmlandhttp://calebegg.com/binclock.xml. >> They work fine in iGoogle. Other of >> my gadgets do work in Blogger. The only reason I can think that these >> don't and those do work is that these two are the only two that are >> internationalized. The countdown gadget has been updated for v2 (has a >> canvas view), but the binary clock doesn't, so I don't think it's >> that. >> >> Additionally, Blogger seems to be getting its title data from one of >> the non-default locales for the countdown gadget, but not for the >> binary clock. >> >> I don't know if this has ever worked or if it's a new problem. >> >> Suggestions? Anyone else having similar problems? >> >> -- >> Caleb Eggenspergerhttp://calebegg.com/ > > > -- Caleb Eggensperger http://calebegg.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
