Hi Justin, It can be confusing - there's overlap between so many of the sites and standards involved. The Google Gadgets API is documented at http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/ . Another API that you're probably interested in is OpenSocial http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ . Gadgets hosted on a variety of sites can use the OpenSocial API. iGoogle is one such site. It's possible to run a gadget container on a site of your own, the easiest way to do that is using Apache Shindig http://shindig.apache.org/ (which Google and others contribute source code to). Setting up your own container is difficult or impossible for some users, so Google FriendConnect is a way of letting gadgets run on your site without the effort of setting up your own gadget container.
There's a lot more to it than this of course, you can build gadgets for other Google services like Maps and Gmail, but the best way to learn is to narrow the scope of where you want to start and follow a guide that makes sense to you. Each of these APIs, sites and tools has their own community and there's a lot of overlap there too. So getting back to your height question, that will depend on how you're rendering the gadget but if iGoogle doesn't do the right thing with the gadget height then this is the right place to discuss it. Rob Russell Google Developer Relations On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Kropotkin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > I'm hosting my gadgets on various sites not on iGoogle and using them > in web pages other than iGoogle. > > I'm finding that my gadgets behave differently in iGoogle and on my > own web site especially around how height is handled. > > Is there some general documentation somewhere relating to issues > involved in gadgets on web pages other than iGoogle? > > with thanks > > Justin Wyllie > > -- > 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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > -- 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.
