If you've been following the shindig development you'll find that all the 
legacy _IG calls are supported.

For the other direction, I believe that we will see a version of iGoogle that 
supports the new gadgets.* calls at some point.  Just look at the 0.7 spec,  
anything not directly related to people/friends moved from opensocial.* to 
gadgets.* .....

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From:  "poncz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subj:  [OpenSocial] Different Gadget API for iGoogle and OpenSocail
Date:  Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:11 am
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To:  "OpenSocial - OpenSocial Application Development" 
<[email protected]>

 
In the past weeks OpenSocail API are becoming more and more distant 
from the original iGoogle gadget API. 
In OpenSocial API 0.6 even the gadget spec has changed. Now all 
iGoogle functions have a different name and implementation in 
OpenSocial. 
 
Having two different gadget APIs bad for iGoogle/OpenSocial and for 
the developers community. OpenSocial platforms will not be able to 
enjoy most of iGoogle super cool, ready made  gadgets and vice versa. 
Developers will have to support both APIs or give up on one of the 
platforms, so in the future, both platforms will have less quality 
gadgets. 
 
This issue cannot be solved with a simple converter(/compiler) because 
maintenance/ code change/ ui change will become a hassle. 
 
iGoogle API: http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/dev_guide.html 
openSocial gadget API: http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/spec.html 
 
 
What does Google think to do about it? 
 
Thanks, 
 


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