Email conversation
| From | Paul |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Interface with your Dashboard Widget |
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| Date | 25 February 2005 14:10 |
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Hi,
I have just seen your RSS widget on thedashboarder.com, I am a UI designer,
and i wanted to know if i can propose you a great new 'interface' for your
widget. I saw that your script witch allow to read rss feeds with
Javascript is really good.
I would love to work with you on this widget.
Tell me if you agree or not ;)
Thanks
Paul
| From | Me |
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| To | Paul |
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| Subject | Re: Interface with your Dashboard Widget |
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| Date | 25 February 2005 15:17 |
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Paul,
Well, this was news to me because I never wrote the widget :)
I wrote the JavaScript that loads and parses the RSS.
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/rss.html
The widget was written by Julius Vu (email address is on
http://thedashboarder.com/archive/ ).
I have to agree, there is definitely some work needed on the widget, for
example:
1. The first time I tell dashboard to show the widget, none of the controls
appear, I have to press F12 twice to make the interface work.
2. The scrollbar does not work
3. It would be much better to allow the user to write in their own RSS feed
addresses. My script is perfectly capable of this, it seems Julias removed
that functionality.
Anyway, if you want to work on it, I suggest you contact Julias :)
Please note that my email service is having problems at the moment, so I
might not see any replies that you send.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/