Anatomy of a UWA widget

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:27:39 +0100

A UWA widget file uses standard XHTML code, except for the preferences section, which uses a specific set of elements. Apart from preferences, the XHTML code is entirely based on Web-standards: XHTML/XML, JavaScript/Ajax, CSS. The fundamentals Must-haves * XML: the widget must be made of well-formed XML/XHTML code ; * UTF-8: the widget's file must be encoded in UTF-8 ; * Namespace: the XHTML code must feature the Netvibes widget namespace on the html element, this way: xmlns:widget=“

UWA cheat-sheet

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:29:48 +0100

What it is The UWA cheat-sheet is an all-in-one, printable, quick reference to UWA’s basic skeleton and JavaScript/DOM methods/properties/events/extensions. It features all of UWA’s JavaScript methods, properties and events, along with a few sample code: the full set of preference tags, and a fully-working sample widget on the last page. New methods/properties added with Netvibes Ginger are also clearly indicated.

UWA JavaScript Framework

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:39:00 +0100

UWA provides an advanced programming experience through its JavaScript framework. The widget object The JS framework provides the developer with many events and methods, encapsulated in JavaScript objects, the most important one being the widget object, an instance of the UWA Widget class.

JSON Feed format

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:56:29 +0100

UWA relies heavily on Ajax, and therefore exchange format such as XML and JSON are first class citizen in that environment. In order to trear all feed formats the same way, Netvibes designed a specific JSON representation format for feeds. While you may be familiar with XML, JSON might warrant some presentation. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, and is a fast, lightweight data-exchange format. It is very popular with web-based services, and is easy to use in a browser-based environmen…

UWA issues

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:23:26 +0100

In this page, you will be able to see the evolution of issues and feature requests around UWA. You can help make UWA better by sending issues and feature ideas through the feedback form. Open issues Issue ID Issue description 001 leads to an universe 004 list preference doesn't display in standalone mode (except in Firefox XHTML rendering) 007 setToolTip only supported in Netvibes with inline rendering 008 password preference displays in p…

Using Ajax in UWA

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:49:34 +0100

The UWA JavaScript framework provides developers with various methods for communicating with web-services using JavaScript/Ajax requests. These methods are easy to use, and specialized for different kind of data types. General thoughts Ajax requests are asynchronous by design: calling a method doesn't imply getting an immediate return value. This return value might take some time, depending on the server, the traffic, the bandwidth, etc. Therefore, you have to pass a callback function's na…

UWA one-page documentation

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:22 +0100

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.