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 […]

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 […]

Deep in the confines of the - very complete - UWA documentation, lies informations that might be important enough to be push to the surface on this blog.
The page we are talking about is the aptly-named “Using events in UWA“. Let’s sum this already short page up: simply put, inline events handlers cannot work properly […]

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 […]

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 […]