Hi,
I posted a comment to the widgets competition blog post a number of days
ago, but the comment was never approved and I never heard any response.
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Yep we've been having problems with the blog comments, sorry. I always suggest
the list over comments for now. We do moderate the comments and MT does send us
emails to remind us, but we didn't receive anything from you.
Basically, I was asking for clarification on the competition rules -
whether a 'widget' should be something that lives on a desktop (as the examples
given in the post suggest) or if it could be something wider, such as a browser
extension or Greasemonkey script (as suggested by the Wikipedia article linked
from the post).
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Honestly, we were thinking if someone did do a browser add-on or Greasemonkey
script, we would have turned it down. Sorry. Specially a greasemonkey script.
The browser add-on might have been a little more difficult to turn down. And
this is the heart of the debate.
My own feeling is that Greasemonkey is more like a filter for a page than
anything else. Yes I'm aware greasemonkey can do everything a modern widget can
and our definition of widgets gets stretched when talking about google gadgets
and pageflakes. So we've had to draw a line somewhere.
This is a shame, because I had a particular idea in mind. I didn't go ahead
with it, because I was concerned it might not meet the criteria.
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There's nothing stopping you from submitting it as an idea or even a prototype.
I'm sure everyone would be interested in what you were thinking anyway.
Cheers,
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk
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