but I can put a gadget on a site and the content of the gadget be viewed by
anyone that gets to my webpage right?

1. I create a google gadget that the owner of the site can add and setup
user preferences.  These preferences will be set via javascript because I
need more functionality than standard UserPrefs so I place the options in
html code of the gadget.
2.  I add the gadget to my webpage (google sites) and update the user
preferences through my UI.
3.  I allow the site to be viewed by another user (not the owner)
4.  I want to detect the the user is not the owner of the site and hide a
portion of my UI that sets the User Preferences.

So I have 2 parts of the content html.  1 part to set the user preferences
via javascript and 1 part the renders things based upon the user preferences
set.  (all within the same content tag of course).
how do I detect they are not the owner in the html so I can hide the user
preferences part of the my UI.  (again it is my user preferences, not the
gadgets.  That is done for me)

Hopefully this makes sense.... :-)



On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote:

> iGoogle gadgets can only be viewed by the owner. Are you thinking of Google
> Friend Connect or Orkut gadgets perhaps?
>
> Rob Russell
> Google Developer Relations
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM, nyronian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on this?  I need to have a more robust user preferences
>> (which I will write in my html)  but I want them to only be exposed to
>> the anyone that gadgets would normally give user preference options.
>> So if google gadgets is restricting user preferences (the menu is not
>> avialable) then I want to be sure to restring my html page as well to
>> not allow user preferences to be set.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Jun 21, 4:08 pm, nyronian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Is there a way in javascript to know if the current user can modify
>> > user preferences or not?
>> >
>> > I am creating a web page that will allow the user to modify user
>> > preference (I will update them programatically) but I only want them
>> > available if the user has access to modify user preferences.
>> >
>> > If, for instance, the gadget is placed on a web page, it can only be
>> > modified when the page is being edited.  Anybody viewing the google
>> > site, cannot modify the user prefences, therefore I want to hide a
>> > portion of the page.
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance.
>>
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