The gadgets on iGoogle don't follow the W3C Widget Spec, there's some
overlap between what W3C Widgets are meant to do with iGoogle Gadgets. The
specification that iGoogle Gadgets follows is OpenSocial, see
http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=JavaScript_API_Reference .

The html content type in an OpenSocial gadget could really be taken to mean
"stuff that goes on a web page" since it can also include html5 elements
(see
http://igoogledeveloper.blogspot.com/2010/05/html5-in-gadgets-on-igoogle.html),
Adobe Flash and SVG content (see
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=www.google.com/ig/modules/datetime_v2/datetime_v2.xml).

hth,
Rob Russell
Google Developer Relations


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:37 AM, hera <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> There's two content types on the Gadget API, i.e. HTML and URL.
>
> I'm wondering if the "content type" only supported on iGoogle?
>
> I didn't find the similar definition on W3C Web Widget Spec, but I'm
> not sure whether I missed something.
>
> If you know the answer, please reply.
>
> Thanks in advance :)
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