Thank you Rob! I will look into the freind connect gadget and see if it meets my business needs.
Yes I understand they could veiw the source and that is fine. It would be nice to detect it at the server level but not required. I think my idea will work if I can detect it. I guess I need to move the the opensocial option. On Jun 25, 12:18 pm, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > This might be something you can detect using the OpenSocial API but it > sounds like you're building a Google Friend Connect gadget, which is a > little different from iGoogle gadgets. You might get better information in > that developer forum > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-friend-connect-developers. > > Remember though that if you're only hiding details using Javascript, a user > can view the source and still see and possibly tweak settings. > > Rob Russell > Google Developer Relations > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Jim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. 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