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Update your widget’s content cleanly with Ajax

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 […]

Building a Twitter widget, part 3: paging and automatic preferences

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 […]

Building a Twitter widget, part 2: displaying the public timeline

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 […]

Building a Twitter widget, part 1: setting-up the code and displaying a single status

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 […]