We’ve been waiting a long time to unveil this new improvement to our widget platform, and this week’s edition of the LeWeb conference in Paris was the perfect occasion to release a handful of good news concerning Netvibes, including this little nugget:
UWA developers can now make their widgets social through the powers of the OpenSocial [...]
Simply put: it’s out! Go check it out, along with the brand new /specs/ page on netvibes.org!
This specification is one important that we’ve meant to add to our .org website for a long time. Netvibes.org started as a repository for all our open-sourced code, among which the whole UWA code: its JavaScript Runtime and PHP [...]
It’s been a few days since our cool Developers Meetup in Paris, where we announced a bunch of new releases that are of importance mostly to you, dear developers!
A proper blogpost has already been published, summing up these releases, and most importantly the new netvibes.org website. You’ll find a lot of information over there, but keep [...]
Update: there is now a definitive URL for the UWA cheat-sheet.
With Ginger, we’ve improved a lot of things about Netvibes: not only the start-page itself and its relationship to the Ecosystem, but also internal components, among them not least being UWA.
Among these was a small project that we knew was very useful within its niche, [...]
A question has been recently asked on the Developers Forum, which might warrant a longer answer: “How should we handle the release of our widget?”
I’ll expand my answer into a longer “development cycle of a UWA widget” of sort…
Development
UWA widget should be built by following the documented guidelines - which are also available as a single [...]
UWA provides a fair number of built-in Ajax methods:
UWA.Data.getXmlwhen you want to get XML data (including well-formed XHTML), and be able to parse it using XML’s DOM properties and methods (parentNode, childNodes, attributes, getElementsByTagName, etc.),
UWA.Data.getTextwhen you just want to get the data in plain text, and maybe parse it using a regexp,
UWA.Data.getJsonwhen you want to safely [...]
Those of you have chosen to make the switch to Ginger (yay!) instead of staying with the older Coriander version (boo!) are surely now familiar with the Activities tabs, and its sections: My private activity, My public activity, and Friends activity.
The first one lets you keep track of the widgets and feeds you have added/removed [...]
With the arrival of Netvibes Ginger, users can now have two sides for their Netvibes account: one private (the classic page), where users put their favorite and most useful widgets like e-mails, feeds, social networks, all to be seen by them only ; and one public (the Netvibes Universe), where the users will tend to [...]
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 [...]
Jeremy Selier is a backend guy at heart, but has been exploring widget-making using UWA, documenting his findings along the way on his French blog. We thought it’d be interesting to ask for his feedback as new widget developer, seeing how his second one, TV Shows, was already pretty advanced.
Your first UWA widget is Personalized [...]
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