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It takes more than just updating the emulation files’ URLs to turn a MiniAPI module into a fully working UWA widget. In the first part of this series of articles, we saw that many others section of the HTML code itself need to be upgraded, and the documentation already indicates which MiniAPI function calls have […]

The Universal Widget API has been available since March 9th, 2007 now, and it was released roughly one year after we launched MiniAPI. MiniAPI has been a huge success, but it was superseded by UWA, and got deprecated on July 9th, 2007 - that is, it is no longer possible to submit a MiniAPI module […]

The Netvibes Ecosystem has its share of search widgets, mostly because they’re easy to build: make a test request in the original search site, write down the search URL, build it into a widget and make that widget open a new page with the search string neatly placed into the search URL.
This is nice, since […]

We already wrote about the i-Métro widget and its makers, Patrice Bernard and Frank van Caenegem. But since this is one very useful service/widget, and it makes good use of the Universal Widget API, we thought it might well be worth the time to have a chat with Mr. Bernard, the man behind the widget […]

Most of you have come to Netvibes for the global widgets, the all-in-one start-page with all your everyday services at your fingertips. And that’s cool, but there’s more to the Internet than Yahoo!, Gmail, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube, y’know?
You might not be aware of this, but Netvibes is not one start-page, but many start-pages: […]

One of the requirements we insist on for developing UWA widget is to use the UTF-8 character encoding - and when I write “we insist”, we really mean it.
It’s not that we find other encodings uncool - really, ISO-8859-1 is a nice fella, and had Ken Thompson and Rob Pike not found themselves in front […]

Those of you who are used to install their favorite UWA widget on other platforms, like Apple Dashboard and Windows Vista, might have noticed that it presents the orange UWA logo as sole differentiator between your UWA widgets - and therefore, those with many widgets would end-up with a lot of same orange icons on […]