Software As She’s Developed

In the questions after my @media ajax talk, Simon Willison asked about frame busting. If gadgets sit inside iframes, what’s to stop them from busting the frame, i.e. replacing the container with another website. I notice he made a similar comment when OpenSocial came out. If a gadget can cause iGoogle to go away in [...]

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I just made my first Google Gadget - a Digg roundup tool. Here are some quick notes on making a Google Gadget for Ajax developers. I assume you know Ajax and also that you've played around with iGoogle as a user. What's a Gadget? The gadget is an XML file sitting on your server. In [...]

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