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dpneal [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, December 14, 2005
3 years ago

if the JavaScript is located on your own web server, won't it be possible to change the script once people have it on their Google/ig page? will this also mean the ability for people to code pop-up pages on google's own pages, URL re-directs, div pop-ups with ads, or maybe more malicious scripts?

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

The potentially dangerous modules (basically all of them at this point) are run in iframes

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

When i say all of them i mean all the ones that are going to be created. Google's own ones run inline. its all in the documentation

Alex Kapranoff [PersonRank 1]

3 years ago #

Obvious shot at Yahoo! Widgets.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

Interesting. They're using a Gmodules.com domain in those Iframes, I suppose to prevent cross-site scripting from malicious widgets. The domain's robots.txt disallows any kind of spidering, too.
gmodules.com/robots.txt

The API is incredibly easy to use so far, but even with the developer widget (developer.xml) the cache disabling doesn't seem to work... I need to add a random query string to force my test widgets out of the Google cache. E.g. ..../helloworld.xml?cache=32902309

Wouter Schut [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

Creating a widget is very simple. Just add

+ Show Flash

to your Google Homepage (Add content --> Create section).

What else would you need? ;)

Wouter Schut [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

Animated clock:

+ Show Flash



Grid Game:

+ Show Flash



Flickr slideshow (not perfect yet):

+ Show Flash


Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

Google is down for me this minute...

Andrew Hitchcock [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

Music recommendations: andrewhitchcock.org/musicmobs/ ...

Andrew [PersonRank 0]

3 years ago #

I made an example that uses asynchronous JS and regular expressions. See somanyschemes.com/2005/12/14/d ...

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

3 years ago #

Here's a simple html one. it ads alternate search boxes for answers, catalogs, etc

base.google.com/base/a/CalebEg ...

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