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/

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