The iGoogle developer sandbox has always served as the bleeding edge version of iGoogle. It’s the place to go when you want to be the first to try out new features. Unfortunately, if a bug sneaks into a sandbox release it can grind gadget development t…
Can’t figure out if your account is in the developer sandbox or not? Sometimes the “Welcome to the iGoogle Developer sandbox” message is obscured. Sometimes developers are confused about the behavior of the http://google.com/ig/sandbox page (which acts…
If you’ve had a chance to look at recent gadgets documentation, or tried out the iGoogle developer sandbox, you’re probably aware that gadgets.* is the new hotness. Sadly, the _IG_* methods are all that work in production.Starting within the next month…
Up until today, gadgets installed in the iGoogle developer sandbox had implicit access to social data, with no way for users to opt-out without uninstalling the gadget. We’ve added a feature to give more finely-grained control to users and allow users…
If you’ve got Firebug installed on your iGoogle page, you may have noticed how requests to fetch people, friends, or persistent data are formatted. These requests follow the RPC specification that’s part of OpenSocial, and, while they’ve been part of t…
See your latest updates on MySpace, read and reply to messages in AOL Mail, and keep track of your Google Book Search Library.These are the first three gadgets on iGoogle to use OAuth, which is a privacy-preserving security standard that defines how a …
After a slightly-longer-than-expected hiatus in the sandbox, the gadgets.* and opensocial.* APIs have been brought back from the dead, just in time for Halloween.Let gadgets.util is undefined haunt you no more!Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer Programs
…there is an equal and opposite reaction. But, even Newton might not have foreseen that when pushing changes to iGoogle, we’d temporarily disable social functionality in the iGoogle developer sandbox. Access to the gadgets.* and OpenSocial APIs shoul…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsWe’re happy to announce the launch of the canvas view feature to iGoogle users in the U.S., rolling out over the course of the day. The canvas view feature allows gadget developers to build richer content, gam…
Some artists say that a blank canvas is daunting. We think of it as an opportunity, which is why we’re excited to be launching the canvas view feature to iGoogle users. Canvas view will roll out to users in the U.S. over the course of the day, and …
I’m excited to announce that we’ve launched two important changes to the iGoogle developer sandbox. First, we have done a major upgrade on the sandbox friends manager that allows you to import, search and create groups of contacts. To share items with…
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve provided an update on the status of the canvas view launch. Our experiments with a small percentage of users have been going well, and we’ve been making some small changes and adjustments based on user feedback (such as…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsAs a quick heads-up, we’ll be pushing a new implementation of the persistence API to the iGoogle sandbox. When this happens, it will effectively clear the data storage of any OpenSocial applications in the san…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsWhile the recent focus has been on the canvas view feature, exciting progress has been made on the OpenSocial front. Developers now have an opportunity to test out parts of the OpenSocial 0.8 specification in t…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsIn November, we announced the deprecation of inlined gadgets on iGoogle. Inlined gadgets filled a niche role in gadget development, a role that has become smaller as more features have been added to iGoogle and…