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What is the Universal Widget API?

xavier — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:13:46 +0200

UWA: the renewal of the “write it once, run it everywhere” paradigm! The short answer With UWA, your Netvibes widget is able to work on most other widget platforms and blog systems: Netvibes, iGoogle, Windows Vista, Live.com, Apple Dashboard, Opera, web-pages...

Using JavaScript and Ajax in a UWA widget - typos.

xavier — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:10:20 +0200

The UWA provides a customized environment, with some restrictions and banned keywords. The API provides, among others, the widget object as an alternative to common JS objects like document and window. Please note that widgets may now be executed in an IFRAME. We strongly advise you to include this case in your tests.

Netvibes Developers Network - User-suggestion corrections.

xavier — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:08:49 +0200

Welcome to the UWA Developers site, where you will learn how to easily build portable widgets using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript/Ajax. UWA developers blog Universal Widget API A widget is a small application running on a platform, allowing its users to access external content on their personal page.

UWA one-page documentation - Corrections, wording, sections, etc.

xavier — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:49:44 +0200

UWA is the Universal Widget API, an XHTML format and JavaScript framework conceived by Netvibes in order to build highly portable widgets, both for Web and desktop platforms. The present document aims at providing as much information about UWA as possible in a single page.

Netvibes APIs - wording.

xavier — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:05:17 +0200

Netvibes lets you access and handle its data through the following APIs: * REST API: retrieve data such as tabs and installed widgets ; * Ecosystem API: retrieve items from Ecosystem, the Netvibes widget distribution platform. REST API Documentation is coming soon

Ecosystem sorts - created

fbureau — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:07:44 +0200

This method is mostly useful in combination with the Search method, in order to sort results. You can retrieve a list of all available sorting types. Formats: XML or JSON (default is XML) In XML, nodetexts have their content encapsulated in a CDATA section. In JSON, these nodes use escaped Unicode codes for special characters.

Ecosystem Types - created

fbureau — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:06:41 +0200

This method is mostly useful in combination with the Search method, for filtering purposes. You can retrieve a list of all item types, each with their name and ID number. Formats: XML or JSON (default is XML) In XML, nodetexts have their content encapsulated in a CDATA section. In JSON, these nodes use escaped Unicode codes for special characters.

Ecosystem categories - created

fbureau — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:05:50 +0200

This method is mostly useful in combination with the Search method, for filtering purposes. You can retrieves all the available categories, each with its own data: * id attribute: the category's ID number * node text: the category's name Formats: XML or JSON (default is XML)

Ecosystem search

fbureau — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:03:49 +0200

This method allows you to implement Ecosystem's search into your application/tool. Parameters Name Default value Description queryThe query string (like the search in )rawqueryThe raw query string (it's a lucene search, without weight on words)page1The pagelimit20The limit of items returnedthumbwidth160The thumbnails widththumbheight120The thumbnails heightsortpopularThe sort (see [:doc:api:eco_sorts available sorts])category0The category id (see [:doc:api:eco_categ…