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 [...]
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 they are [...]
The main idea behind this series of articles is, as you’d have guessed by now, to take over the MiniAPI tutorial and push it into the 21st century, kicking and screaming show how easy it can be to get the same effects in UWA. The most acute readers among you would have noticed that we [...]
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 [...]
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 MiniAPI has been a huge success, but it was superseded by UWA, and got deprecated on July 9th, 2007 – that is, it is no longer possible to submit a MiniAPI module [...]
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