25 messages in com.googlegroups.google-gadgets-apiRe: Inlined Gadgets Now Deprecated
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Dann (Google Employee)16 Jan 2008 14:11 
xanthous16 Jan 2008 14:31 
abowman (Guru)17 Jan 2008 06:50 
D.M.P.17 Jan 2008 12:46 
Gary17 Jan 2008 16:48 
Matt (Guru)18 Jan 2008 06:39 
Dann (Google Employee)18 Jan 2008 11:24 
Kaz19 Jan 2008 14:11 
Matt (Guru)20 Jan 2008 05:38 
Michel21 Jan 2008 01:35 
Alex28 Jan 2008 07:10 
Michel28 Jan 2008 08:14 
Dann (Google Employee)28 Jan 2008 13:57 
Simon06 Feb 2008 06:43 
Bonstio (Guru)12 Feb 2008 07:46 
GearsGadgets02 Mar 2008 00:44 
Simon10 Mar 2008 04:27 
dnl2ba11 Mar 2008 08:27 
Bonstio (Guru)19 Mar 2008 15:03 
pres...@gmail.com25 Mar 2008 14:41 
dnl2ba27 Mar 2008 21:20 
Simon28 Mar 2008 04:52 
Simon28 Mar 2008 04:54 
dnl2ba28 Mar 2008 12:17 
Jerry23 Apr 2008 14:08 
Subject:Re: Inlined Gadgets Now Deprecated
From:dnl2ba (dnl@gmail.com)
Date:03/27/2008 09:20:48 PM
List:com.googlegroups.google-gadgets-api

I thought initially that the error messages and data loss I mentioned in my prior post were just from the transition from inline to non- inline, but a user just told me that 1) only 1 of several instances of my gadget was affected on his iGoogle page, and 2) it was fine until last week (a couple weeks after I changed it from inline to non- inline). So the problem is ongoing, but I don't think there's anything in my gadget that could have caused it.

I'm getting emails from lots of distressed users wondering what happened to their To-Do Lists. Some used it to store crucial data. One guy told me he had just arrived in France and expected to be able to pull up his To-Do List data, but since it wasn't working, he didn't have some important information he needed (itinerary information, I assume). It pains me to be related to human problems of loss and inconvenience, but I don't think there's anything I can do about it without some insight from the Gadgets team.

Help!

On Mar 11, 8:27 am, dnl2ba <dnl@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

This is my
gadget:http://mostlycloudy.net/~dnl2ba/subpages/gdir-test/tasklist.xmlhttp://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&url=mostlycloudy.net/~dnl2ba...

I recently updated it, and in the process, made it so it's no longer inline. It runs fine for me in an iframe, but some users are reporting horrific error messages. For example: "The message I am still getting on IE is the standard 'can't display that page'--the message you get when you are not connected to the 'net. On Firefox I get a dramatic 'ERROR' message where the to-do list should be. 'BAD REQUEST'"

I think this is happening for a *lot* of users. The number of users dropped overnight from 46,000 to 35,000. Other users reported data loss.

Does this ring any bells? It suppose it could be a bug on my end, but I can't reproduce it for the life of me (and I've tried IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3b3, Opera 9.5b, and Safari 3 on 2 different Google accounts on 2 different computers). Could it be related to the switch from inline to iframes?

On Jan 28, 2:57 pm, "Dann (Google Employee)" <d.@google.com> wrote:

Thanks for the update Michel.

Original Message Follows:

------------------------ From: Michel <bmic@gmail.com> Subject: [Google-Gadgets-API] Re: Inlined Gadgets Now Deprecated Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:14:50 -0800 (PST)

Just an update. The gadget in question is working again.

On Jan 21, 10:35 am, Michel <bmic@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dan,

The following gadget was also created *before* the first depreciation attempt. But I'm getting the *not supported* message: "Sorry, this gadget uses the inlining feature, which is no longer supported."

url:  http://bmichel.googlepages.com/mychef.xml

Please let me know if this can be fixed or not.

Regards Michel

On Jan 16, 11:11 pm, "Dann (Google Employee)" <d.@google.com> wrote:

Hey gadget developers,

I'd like to announce that as of this morning, we officially re-enabled the deprecation of inlined gadgets.  Some of you may remember that we tried turning this on the week before Christmas last month, but we ran into a few issues and had to revert the change.  Now that it's turned back on, here's the current status of what this means:

-- Inlined gadgets created *before* the first deprecation attempt (Wed, 2007/12/19) are supported and will continue to render. -- Any inlined gadgets created the first deprecation attempt (Wed, 2007/12/19) are *not* supported and will display this message when rendered: "Sorry, this gadget uses the inlining feature, which is no longer supported."

Many of you may have legitimate reasons as to why you'd want to create a new inlined gadget.  However, please understand that this deprecation is final and that we cannot accept any requests at this time to make an exception for your case.  Hopefully we provided enough information and forewarning about this.

As always, we'd be happy to answer any questions/comments you may have.

Thanks!