On Jun 22, 5:43 pm, furby <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
The point is that, for generic API gadgets, there's no likelihood that the user will have a Google account, or be logged into it. There's no generic mechanism for this sort of thing. > 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... There are Google authorization APIs that you can use to things of this nature, but it's been a couple of years since I've used them and my knowledge of them is quite out of date. Take a look at GAuth and OAuth. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
