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Understanding the TabView control

The TabView control, which allows you to put a standardized set of tabs within your widget, had been documented since day one, back in 2007. But that documentation was somewhat inprecise and lacking details, to say the least.
While its documentation has been severly improved since then (let us know if you consider it could still [...]

Making JavaScript and Flash work together in a UWA widget

We recently stumbled upon an interesting part of web application : making a Flash object communicating with its containing HTML page’s JavaScript functions. This is not unheard of, of course, but in the world of UWA, this can prove difficult to implement in a working way.
A reminder: JavaScript in UWA
As UWA developers know, portability and [...]

Boost your feeds and make use of our numerous feed views

Netvibes  users were long used to using the Feed Reader widget which, combined with the internal full-page feed reader, makes for the greatness of Netvibes as a feed agregator, and from there on, as a complete digital dashboard.
Back in December 2008, we updated our Feed Reader widget with three new views (Ticker, Carousel, Magazine) ; [...]

Building your own animated theme for Netvibes

It’s been a month since we revealed that Netvibes is supporting animated themes – that is, themes that change throughout the day, depending on the designer’s wishes.

Today marks another milestone for animated themes in Netvibes, with the official support of 10 brand new themes, which obviously make plenty o’ use of time ranges.
I want my [...]

How to integrate Netvibes sharing in your website

Last year, we introduced social features with the “Ginger” version of Netvibes. One of them, is the ability for users to share their most interesting links with your all their contacts. Since the launch of the feature, several hundred thousand links have already been publicly shared.
If you’re running a website, you can get your users [...]

2008: a year in review

This is year is coming to an end, parties are being planned already, and it might be time to look back at what 2008 brought us – and by us, I mean UWA and its ecosystem.
2008 has been a good year: we’ve released some very cool stuffs, added some functionalities to the API, and made [...]

Sharing (widgets) is caring

We’ve long said, and proved, that UWA works on all major widget platforms – you know the drill: Netvibes, Apple Dashboard, iGoogle, Opera, Vista, Live.com… But there is one more that deserves to be as well known: blog export.
The ability to work on blogs, and for that matter on any website,  has always been part [...]

Harnessing the Activities Timeline

You might not have noticed it, but in addition to completely revamping our Ecosystem (you didn’t know? check it out!), we’ve been silently adding new functionalities here and there, for developers to play with.
One of these “toys” is the expanded Timeline Search. As a Netvibes user, you must know about the User Timeline, where a [...]

It’s easy to have a good-looking widget

On this blog, we’ve been steadily giving you advices about content and code, two of the main aspects of what makes a good widget in our opinion: content, because a widget is nothing without it ; and code, because that’s what UWA gets its flexibility and portability from.
It was all content and code, until now: [...]

New developers tools: Netvibes Platform and the UWA-Iframe method

It’s been a few days since our cool Developers Meetup in Paris, where we announced a bunch of new releases that are of importance mostly to you, dear developers!
A proper blogpost has already been published, summing up these releases, and most importantly the new netvibes.org website. You’ll find a lot of information over there, but keep [...]


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