Netvibes Developers blog

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]