netvibes - (re)mix the web

Here comes the high point of this series of articles, where all the bricks come together. During the first three parts, I’ve been banging one specific drum: whereas MiniAPI modules could be based on a multitude of inter-linked dynamic files, UWA widgets should really stick to one static file, and rely on Ajax requests to […]

We’ve seen a lot already: now you should be familiar with the differences between a MiniAPI file and a UWA one, and you should know how to convert a MiniAPI configuration form into a UWA preferences form. Now is the time to dive into a more advanced feature, one that will be of use to […]

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’ve been working on a nifty new, much-needed document for you, dear developers : a all-in-one, printable, quick reference to UWA’s basic skeleton and JavaScript methodes/properties/events/extensions - in other words, what we call a cheat-sheet.
Hot off the press, we present you with the first iteration of this UWA cheat-sheet: grab the PDF file here!
Astute readers […]

We’ve been through a lot of things since we started this series of articles, but the part we are entering now is what will make a difference in your widget. Many widget are able to display public data, and others can display private data just fine, but being able to also publish data directly from […]

So far, this series of articles have focused on getting and displaying public data, like Twitter public timeline in the previous part of this series of tutorials.
Public data is what most of the current web services will let you play with, but the more interesting services are those that let you manipulate your private […]

The first part of this series saw us build a widget that displayed a single Twitter status. The second part built upon the first on, and expanded the widget to display the whole public timeline feed, all the while learning UWA techniques and good practices.
Techniques and best practices are the central elements of […]

This is part 2 of our series of articles on building a complete Twitter widget, all the while exploring the functionalities of UWA and learning some good practices of widget developing. If you haven’t already, read the first part, where we set up the basic widget code, and customize it to display a single, known […]

With the introduction of authentication methods in UWA (see the complete documentation) comes the ability to build some much more interesting widgets, ones that can access private data securely, both in read and write mode (HTTP GET and POST).
In order to present authentication to you, we’ve built a Twitter widget able to access your own […]