You are probably right... But it seems to me that it ought to be perfectly acceptable to store them in a users google account in the cloud. My users all have google accounts, but I have to do gadget type stuff on pages other than iGoogle (It's a long story and not something I can explain outside of the company)... so they have a google account. It would be nice to be able to allow them to log onto google in one spot and then have the gadgets access their account for the prefs...
On Jun 22, 12:36 pm, String <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 5:22 pm, furby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's easy to create userprefs for google gadgets... and if you are > > using those gadgets inside iGoogle, the userPrefs make a perfect place > > to put setup info... But how does one go about saving those prefs when > > the gadget is being run from a page outside of Google? > > You are correct, setprefs doesn't work in syndicated gadgets. The > preferences can be set when the gadget is configured by the page > owner, and retrieved using the _IG_Prefs object, but not saved. > > If you think about it, where would they be saved to? On iGoogle, the > page owner and viewer are the same person, and he's logged into his > Google account - so the preferences get saved there. With a syndicated > gadget, the page viewer isn't necessarily logged into anything, so the > API has nowhere to save prefs on a per-user basis. > > The best answer I know of is to use cookies, but of course those are > stored within a single browser instance - not in the cloud, as iGoogle > prefs usually are. > > String --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
