Adjust Height doesn't work in Thrid Paty website with IE and Firefox
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Key: SHINDIG-1631
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-1631
Project: Shindig
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Javascript
Environment: Firefox (tested with 5 and 6) and Internet Explorer
(tested with 7, 8 and 9)
It works with Chrome / Safari.
Reporter: Fabrice
Gadgets API and Open Social have a function for adjusting height:
gadgets.window.adjustHeight()
This function is not working on all browsers AND when called from thrid party
website. On iGoogle it will work for all browsers (my understanding is that in
this case it works because it is taking advantages of "views" instead).
To view the bug, I embeded a gadget on this third party website:
http://youfoot.weebly.com/ (open with Firefox or IE, and click "Expand" > the
gagdet is truncated)
The code is also posted on the same page. It's really a very simple code to
test adjusting height: gadgets.window.adjustHeight()
If you run this code in Google Gadget Checker to debug it it shows that the API
is called but it doesn't see the function!
Gadget Checker is available here:
http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=www.google.com/ig/modules/codechecker/codechecker.xml
The error returned is:
WARNING Unused features
The gadget doesn't appear to use the dynamic-height feature, although it
requests it.
Recommendation: Consider removing this line, so your gadget doesn't contain
unnecessary javascript.
About the code: some may think the code is work. We didn't write it, this is a
very basic code that Takashi Matsuo wrote in this post
(http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/thread/2641fd314290e47a)
unfortunately he never responded and the code he gave he only tested in
iGoogle and concluded that it worked. But his code doesn't work when the gadget
is embeded in Third Party website. Afetr we didn't hear from him again...
We've tried other syntax (like the deprecated function from 2008) and many
other variations, as well as complete work-arounds > it's simply broken.
Is this a Shindig issue: I didn't think this was. Because, in this case we want
to embed this on a Third Party website which is not Open Social. However,
having exchanged emails with Mark Weitzel (president of Open Social) he
concluded:
"adjustHeight is an API that's part of the spec. The implementation is in
apache shindig. If this api doesn't actually work, it's likely a problem in the
implementation--that's shindig."
This is why I am posting this here...
Priority: I am putting "Major" only (Major loss of function.) but this is the
first thing we tested before we choose to use Gadgets/OpenSocial. It's critical
to the usage of the Gadgets in term of UI. So to me it's "Blocker"
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