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Google Gadgets can now be put directly on any personal website. This free service was released to the public just recently. There are currently hundreds of Google Gadgets which includes different applications ranging from calendars, games, map, dictionaries and more.
This creates the ability for anyone to further increase their website’s user experiences by adding a Google Gadget which compliments the website. (Scroll further down to see my Google Gadget Pacman game!)
“With almost no effort and at no cost, webpage owners can add complex, dynamically updating content to their own websites using Google Gadgets. Because there is such an enormous variety of Google Gadgets to choose from, webmasters also have a great deal of freedom to select only the gadgets that will best complement their own page. There are games, news clips, weather reports, maps, and more.”
Source: http://www.google.com/press/annc/synd_gadgets.html
Although this is interesting, your inclusion of PacMan is simply an IFRAME and this is nothing unusual. What makes Google Gadgets more interesting is the ability to include them directly within your site using JavaScript. However, the actual version of Blogger (and a lot of other Blogging solutions) doesn’t allow inserting JavaScript within Blog Posts…
If ever you find a better way of doing this, let me know… I’ve been trying to create a Blogger hack to allow JavaScript in posts.
Cheers,
S.Hamel
http://shamel.blogspot.com
You know late last night I noticed the same thing too (with the javascript not allowed). If I figure out a way to get around this on blogger I will post about it.
I had no problem running it on my personal website but really wanted to make PacMan work on the blog so the iframe was a good option.
With the Iframe however, I noticed that without writing some extra JS code to refresh the iframe the Google Gadget wouldn’t load right away.
I’m trying to use it but when I put it in a page which is called withib an iframe, the gadget’s input form is disabled. Perhaps it is because the gadget itself is in an iframe. So far, I can’t find a workaround for it to work.
I just wanna load a gadget dynamically, asynchronously. I don’t have any idea how to do this. How to load -without a iframe- a google gadget into a DIV dynamically?
Any of you have an answer?