Joost, the service that distributes TV shows and other video, added support for W3C packaging of widgets, which means that Opera Widgets might work well in Joost.
Opera Widgets also follows this W3C widget standard. In fact, Opera was the one who proposed this widget standard based on its own Opera Widgets implementation.
I wasn’t, however, able to test it out, since I couldn’t figure out how to run widgets within the Joost application.
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That is really cool. Does widget applies to the ones for Mac OS X?
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This would be nice!
It’s nice to hear how Opera share the W3C standard development with everyone. I hope the -tag will also accepted as standard.
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“-tag”
should be “” -tag
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yeeliberto, Mac OS X doesn’t follow the W3C widget standards.
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Hi there.
OK quick instructions:
I’m running Joost now in MacOSX. I grab the URL http://widgets.opera.com/widget/download/4860/1.0/?force=1 from the blog post linked above, … go into Joost and the right hand side of the screen (”My Joost”). Then in the Widget Menu, find the Widget Manager (hmm you might need to enable this in the Advanced Preferences). I think you either need to append ?force=1 or go find the direct URL to .zip in a Web browser, rather than use the main Widget page URL, currently.
In Widget Manager you can load Joost widgets via a file dialog, and Joost or Opera via pasting an URL into the bar near bottom of the screen then press “Add Widget”. It can take a few seconds to download, unpack and install a widget. If I press ctrl/shift/D I can see the debug console, which is helpful for those widgets that don’t work.
Going thru that routine, I found the URL didn’t always display in the textarea (hey this is a developer preview release
but if the widget manager is closed and re-opened, it displays ok.
Yes this is a bit involved right now, but … it’s progress!
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Dan, thanks. I’ll take a look at it tomorrow.
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Cool idea, it doesnt seem to work for me though. I’m using Joost on Windows and can’t install Opera-Widgets, neither from the web nor from a local zip file. Neither renaming it to joda nor the “?force=1″ help :/
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Mathias – are you running the bleeding edge previous release? See links from http://blogs.joost.com/dev/2007/11/first_preview_release.html … earlier versions didn’t understand the opera/w3c stuff…
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Nice nice, gonna try this tomorrow..
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Dan,
Neat!
thanks alot, Opera Widgets are working now
But they seem to have some issues with transparency and images. Ffor example in the analog clock widget (http://widgets.opera.com/widget/3529/) looks a bit strange in Joost.
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OMG who the heck wants widgets in Joost!!!!??? What the heck is up with this widget **** anyway? Widget in opera, widgets in joost, yahoo widgets, next I’ll go to mcdonalds and they will ask “Would you like widgets with that!
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Just to point out an inaccuracy: Opera does not follow the w3c widgets draft (Oct. 13, 2007) Daniel linked to. Nobody does, as the w3c widget specification is currently under heavy development, and anyone implementing the specification must expect the spec to change from under their feet.
What Opera however did, was to provide the initial input to the w3c, in the form of a specification that exactly matches Opera’s implementation. The implementation that is very close to being a one-to-one match with Opera’s implementation is the November 2006 draft.
Regards, Arve (editor of internal Opera widget specification).