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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Not everyone knows it, but you can access and control the internal podcast player using UWA – and we’ll show you how in this very article.
The example used here is the excellent Web Radio Player widget, built by Maurice Svay and which lets you play audio streams in MP3 format from the renown ShoutCast service.
When [...]
Update: there is now a definitive URL for the UWA cheat-sheet.
Note: This post is about the preview version of the cheat-sheet. It has since been updated: you can read about it here.
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 [...]
The cool thing about seeing the UWA community blossom, is to witness developers’ passions and interestes, which translate into cool, funny, creative or downright necessary widgets. Developers can use the DevNet forums to showcase their widgets, and we’ll now try to give our favorites a little popularity boost on this blog.
The latest example of a [...]
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 [...]
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