Yet Another Google Soc proposal: Squeak/Aida? Wrapper for Google Gadgets

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Yet Another Google Soc proposal: Squeak/Aida? Wrapper for Google Gadgets

Rob Rothwell
Hi all,

While staring at the remarkable likeness of a Google Gadget to a Squeak Morph, I wondered if it would be possible to write a Squeak wrapper to code the Gadgets with?

Anyway, since they are "just" Javascript and HTML, which is served up nicely in Aida, I thought maybe it would be possible to put them in these iFrames (whatever they are!) and have "Morphs" on your desktop (maybe even with some classic morphic behaviour)!

On the other hand, if an Aida wrapper for Prototype-UI only took Nicolas two hours, maybe this is too easy for a "Summer of Code" project for programmers of your caliber!

Just a thought.  I wouldn't even know where to start, but it might make a nice summer project for an intermediate student of some kind.

Rob Rothwell

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Re: Yet Another Google Soc proposal: Squeak/Aida? Wrapper for Google Gadgets

Janko Mivšek
Hi Rob,

Again one late answer, sorry :)

About wrapping different JavaScript widgets/gadgets, there is always a
problem of compatibility among them. And because we use Prototype and
Scriptaculous, we always need to take care that those gadgeds can work
side by side with those two libs. Which is not always the case, usually
those gadgeds request "all or nothing". So, you always need to check
first a compatibility with our existing libs. And consequently the
Prototype based gadgeds are more preferable.

So, how is Google gadgeds working together with Prototype/Scriptaculous.
What about Yahoo's YUI?

JAnko

Rob Rothwell wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> While staring at the remarkable likeness of a Google Gadget to a Squeak
> Morph, I wondered if it would be possible to write a Squeak wrapper to
> code the Gadgets with?
>
> Anyway, since they are "just" Javascript and HTML, which is served up
> nicely in Aida, I thought maybe it would be possible to put them in
> these iFrames (whatever they are!) and have "Morphs" on your desktop
> (maybe even with some classic morphic behaviour)!
>
> On the other hand, if an Aida wrapper for Prototype-UI only took Nicolas
> two hours, maybe this is too easy for a "Summer of Code" project for
> programmers of your caliber!
>
> Just a thought.  I wouldn't even know where to start, but it might make
> a nice summer project for an intermediate student of some kind.
>
> Rob Rothwell
>
>
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