This topic of discussion is still worrisome to us, both at our company and to the community at large. Inline gadget were the ONLY unique thing about iGoogle. When the feature was initially scheduled for deprecation we here at Go Global Gadget LLC decided that the ROI on iGoogle gadget development wasn't high enough to justify continuing development on this platform. We had many other ideas for new and interesting gadgets. Some of the most innovative were inline. Sorry Dan (Google), your loss.
Anyway. Our conclusion as to which gadgets and why Google is deprecating inline gadgets are two fold. One: Security. inline gadgets are a security mess. Malicious web developers could collect user info and do a lot of things outside the iframe sandbox which could hurt the user. Two: Don't mess with Google. If your gadget messes with Google gadgets or the page too much then you'll be shut down. We analyzed the our inline gadgets that iGoogle decided to shut off and they basically they had these two perceived qualities to them. The security we imposed on our gadgets was to encrypt our javascript intellectual property (which may have been too suspicious for google) and the other gadgets messed with the page in ways that iGoogle probably didn't like. All the gadgets which DIDN'T have these qualities to them made it through the gauntlet of deprecation. This means that iGoogle is going through BY HAND and checking each inline gadget for various qualities. That's really underhanded and a slap to developers' faces. So if your gadget was turned off, it was turned off for a very specific reason. This said, i'd like to reiterate that Google's gadgets being inline is an unfair double standard which most likely won't change. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
