You're on the right track. If you do load a gadget XML file directly into a browser, you'll just see the XML file itself, not a running gadget. Here, try it with an old one of mine:
http://general-election-2008.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/results-gadget.xml Just raw XML, right? So you're right, we do need to get a Google server to interpret that XML for us, and they have one at www.gmodules.com. We load a URL from that domain in the browser and pass it the XML file URL as a parameter: For example, to get the gadget customizer page which includes a working version of that gadget: http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http://general-election-2008.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/results-gadget.xml Similar URLs are used when you embed a gadget in your own page; the Get the Code button at the bottom of the gadget customizer gives a script tag to use. Do a View Source on this page and search for gmodules.com and you'll find a bunch of examples: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#2008_election -Mike On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Albert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to all this and have some questions: > > I want to create a Google gadget or a widget for my website which > could be used also on other websites. As I understand the Google > gadget, it is created as a xml-file with Google specific elements, > like <module>. So my question is how can a browser interpret this xml- > file, which is stored on my server, when it does not know those Google > specifics? Or is there at the start of the gadget "some" connection to > Google which then executes the gadget? As I understand a widget, it > contains "only" html, css, js and flash, and is only an html-file, > which every browser can handle. > > Perhaps you wonder what stupid questions I ask, but I'm really > confused about all this new stuff. > > And perhaps there is someone who is kind enough and helps me. > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > Albert > > -- > 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.
