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UWA widget are compatible with many existing platforms thanks to its compilators, and it is therefore possible to submit comiled UWA widget to other format-specific directories.

iGoogle's directory requires a specific set of meta to be defined within the widget. UWA's compilers is taking care of converting existing meta into the proper format, but it cannot create meta that do not exist yet.

Therefore, the following meta should be defined within the UWA widget before submitting to iGoogle's directory:

In order to submit your widget to that directory, go to this URL:

http://www.google.com/ig/submit

…and put the URL to your widget's compiled state in the form. You'll then just have to follow through until you're done.

The URL to use in iGoogle's submit form is not readily available, so it has to be either built by hand, or found out.

These are the two parts of the URL to submit to iGoogle:

1. the compiler's URL:
   http://nvmodules.netvibes.com/widget/gspec?uwaUrl=
2. the widget's source URL, encoded.

For instance, for the i-Métro widget:

• source URL is:
  http://imetro.nanika.net/nvimetro.htm
• encoded source URL is:
  http%3A%2F%2Fimetro.nanika.net%2Fnvimetro.html
• final URL to submit to iGoogle: http://nvmodules.netvibes.com/widget/gspec?uwaUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fimetro.nanika.net%2Fnvimetro.html

You can URL-encode any URL using online services, such as w3schools'.

There is much longer, but keyboard-free way to find the correct URL.

1. Open the Eco page of the wanted widget ;
2. Click on the Source link to get to the standalone version of the widget ;
3. Provided that the widget uses UWA's emulation files, you'll see two buttons at the bottom of the widget. Click the one with the iGoogle logo ;
4. You are redirected to the subscribe page of iGoogle. Click the big “Add to Google” button ;
5. You are redirected to your iGoogle page. The widget is there. In its header, click the leftmost button on the right to get to a menu, and select “About this gadget” ;
6. You are redirected to the gadget's info page. Click the Source link on the right ;
7. You are redirected to the final URL. Copy it (not the code!), and submit it to iGoogle.