netvibes - (re)mix the web

One of the requirements we insist on for developing UWA widget is to use the UTF-8 character encoding - and when I write “we insist”, we really mean it.
It’s not that we find other encodings uncool - really, ISO-8859-1 is a nice fella, and had Ken Thompson and Rob Pike not found themselves in front […]

Those of you who are used to install their favorite UWA widget on other platforms, like Apple Dashboard and Windows Vista, might have noticed that it presents the orange UWA logo as sole differentiator between your UWA widgets - and therefore, those with many widgets would end-up with a lot of same orange icons on […]

Some of you may have witnessed what we’ve been doing with Netvibes Premium Widgets (marked with the distinction logo): basically pushing our UWA TabView controler to its limits.
Until know the TabView documentation was basic, if even sparse: because using tabs should be done up-front when starting a new widget, we didn’t want to […]

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 […]

The Paris-Web 2007 conference is now over, and we can take the time to let you know how the workshop went - and to give you access to the live material.
The whole Paris-Web conference was a real pleasure to attend and to participate in, filled with passionate people on both sides of the auditorium. In […]

Having the ability to get your widget to work on many platforms is one excellent thing, of which we are very proud, but we are also aware of the fact that most users of a given platform look for widgets on that platform’s central widget repository/directory.
Even if Ecosystem is the best place to submit […]

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 […]

There are many applications out there that would be useful to Netvibes users - and UWA users in general, but whose developer chose to use Flash instead of relying on easy-to-parse standards or easy-to-implement Web services. As highlighted in our post about the new Netvibes Ecosystem, logged-in users can now directly submit the URL of [...]

Ben Colon is one of the first Netvibes modules developers - indeed, his Ecosystem ID is simply 1, you can’t get smaller than that Over the years, he has built a good number of MiniAPI modules. Since the deprecation of MiniAPI last July, he has started working on converting his MiniAPI modules into Universal […]