Embeding Y! Widgets or Google Gadgets in ASP page
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Topic: Embeding Y! Widgets or Google Gadgets in ASP page
Posted By: PrivateEye
Subject: Embeding Y! Widgets or Google Gadgets in ASP page
Date Posted: 30 October 2006 at 9:52pm
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I don't know if Yahoo offers Widgets for website on yahoo but I have tried with Google Gadgets www.google.com/ig. All we need is to signin to Google Gadgets, make our own personalize home page and then add Gadgets from the Google Gallery. I want to know that how can we use Gadgets like on Google in our own asp pages? ------------- The Judgement Day |
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 31 October 2006 at 2:26pm
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I am sure it is doable in asp but you might want to save your strength for something else and look at asp.net. There you can create so-called webparts which are essentially widgets once you plug the right info into it. Webparts allow minimize, close, drag-and-drop etc. If you need to stay away from asp.net for now I guess those widgets are just layers utilizing bunches of AJAX. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 01 November 2006 at 12:16am
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Check out AJAX EDIT: An example of stuff it can do is at http://www.pageflakes.com/ - http://www.pageflakes.com/ ------------- 
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Posted By: PrivateEye
Date Posted: 01 November 2006 at 6:34pm
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Thank you. I am not specifically interested in doing it in asp.net neither require drag and drop facility. My focus is just to swap top contents from websites in different categories like Sports, Technology, and education etc. as Gadgets normally do. ------------- The Judgement Day |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 01 November 2006 at 10:04pm
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It sounds like you want them to select between rss feeds and set a cookie for the ones they choose to display.
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Posted By: PrivateEye
Date Posted: 02 November 2006 at 6:31pm
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Mainly I am interested in displaying the top contents from different websites like cnn.com. As Google Gadget is available for cnn.com and it displays top news on Google personalized page. Similarly many other gadgets are available. Similarly I want to display top contents from different websites on my page so that my visitors can have variety of information on my website. I hope that I have explained it as I desire.
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 03 November 2006 at 3:24pm
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Are you talking about displaying the rss feeds from these sites?
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Posted By: PrivateEye
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 6:39pm
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Frankly speaking I don't know if these are RSS feeds or what. But I want to display contents from these websites on my web page as Gadgets do.
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 6:54pm
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Gadgets use RSS feeds. For example, if you click on one of the headlines, you get taken to a site that offers an rss feed - usually on their home page - e.g. http://www.cnn.com/services/rss/ - http://www.cnn.com/services/rss/ or http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/services/rss/ - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/services/rss/ Feeds usually require some formatting to fit nicely within a site - either css or xslt. Once you have a library of feed retrieval and formatting, it's just a matter of setting a user preference cookie to determine which one is displayed. -------------
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Posted By: PrivateEye
Date Posted: 05 November 2006 at 10:46am
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Thank you and now I understand the basics of RSS. Can you please explain the word library of feed. How I can program it?
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 05 November 2006 at 2:54pm
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A library of feeds is just the collection of feeds that your page supports - ones you've set up to be retrieved and formatted for the page.
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