Netvibes Developers blog

A question has been recently asked on the Developers Forum, which might warrant a longer answer: “How should we handle the release of our widget?” I’ll expand my answer into a longer “development cycle of a UWA widget” of sort… Development UWA widget should be built by following the documented guidelines - which are also available [...]

UWA provides a fair number of built-in Ajax methods: UWA.Data.getXmlwhen you want to get XML data (including well-formed XHTML), and be able to parse it using XML’s DOM properties and methods (parentNode, childNodes, attributes, getElementsByTagName, etc.), UWA.Data.getTextwhen you just want to get the data in plain text, and maybe parse it using a regexp, UWA.Data.getJsonwhen you [...]

Those of you have chosen to make the switch to Ginger (yay!) instead of staying with the older Coriander version (boo!) are surely now familiar with the Activities tabs, and its sections: My private activity, My public activity, and Friends activity. The first one lets you keep track of the widgets and feeds you have [...]

With the arrival of Netvibes Ginger, users can now have two sides for their Netvibes account: one private (the classic page), where users put their favorite and most useful widgets like e-mails, feeds, social networks, all to be seen by them only ; and one public (the Netvibes Universe), where the users will tend to [...]

We’ve seen how to switch to UWA pretty all available MiniAPI functionalities in this series’ previous articles. Now is the time to touch on functionalities that cannot be switch as-is, or simply put, that are not available in the stricter, more portable Universal Widget API. One of the toughest of these is preferences. Sure, we’ve [...]

Ginger is now open to everyone, and you can all see the new functionalities. Among these is the integrated search: you don’t need to go to Ecosystem to find new cool stuffs to add to your personal page or your Universe, you can simply search Ecosystem and directly receive the corresponding list of feeds and [...]

Jeremy Selier is a backend guy at heart, but has been exploring widget-making using UWA, documenting his findings along the way on his French blog. We thought it’d be interesting to ask for his feedback as new widget developer, seeing how his second one, TV Shows, was already pretty advanced. Your first UWA widget is [...]

(See bottom of the post for an update) Netvibes was created as a way to gather all your digital life in one handy place, providing in-house for your most important digital needs: search, e-mail, to-do list, feed-reader, bookmarks & links, weather, calendar… It quickly turned out that our users needed access to more digital content [...]

Most of you must have received an invitation code to the Ginger beta now, wether thanks to your Ecosystem widget submission, or through any other general codes that could be found on various website in the past few weeks. Finding the UWA Test module Using the UWA Test module to test how a widget is [...]

One question keeps coming up from people who have taken the dive and converted their module to a widget. It’s pretty simple, and represents an essential part of such conversion. This post will therefore be suitably short. I’m done converting. It works. What’s next? The “what’s next?” part implies a lot of questions, but mostly [...]