Hi again Rob Thanks.
Ok. i think conceptually I understand Google Friend Connect as, as far as gadgets are concerned, a very lightweight 'container' which seems to correspond with what you say. (It also seems to have opensocial methods but I haven't got into that part of it yet). I believe we are going to use Apache Shindig end to end and maybe some of the things I want to do with gadgets will be possible with the client side libraries which come with that. You're right; it is confusing. The http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial seems helpful and I notice there is a video there about 'Open Social Tutorial:- Part 1 Gadgets' which seems encouraging. Thanks for the pointers J On Apr 16, 10:29 pm, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Justin, > It can be confusing - there's overlap between so many of the sites and > standards involved. The Google Gadgets API is documented > athttp://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/. Another API that you're probably > interested in is OpenSocialhttp://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 > Shindighttp://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 > athttp://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.
