RE: Rendered Gadget Display Scrollbars unlike iGoogle

[Darren Bond]

Hi All,

Unfortunately we're still struggling with this issue.

Can anyone give us some helpful pointers where we might be going wrong with
the code below?

Thanks.

Darren


-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Bond [mailto:db...@globalcad.com] 
Sent: 19 September 2013 09:24
To: 'dev@shindig.apache.org'; 'us...@shindig.apache.org'
Subject: RE: Rendered Gadget Display Scrollbars unlike iGoogle

Hi Stanton/Dan,

Thank you for your helpful replies. I've received the following feedback
from our developer:-

Some gadgets get rendered correctly such as the TODO list gadget
(http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml) but others don't.

For example, we have problems with the Dictionary gadget
(http://www.gstatic.com/ig/modules/dictionary/dictionary_v2.xml)
The YouTube gadget (www.gstatic.com/ig/modules/youtube/v3/youtube.xml)
appears fickle in that sometimes vert/horiz scroll bars appear under home
view and at other times not.

All of them have <Require feature="dynamic-height"/> in their specification.
We use CSS padding for the html div tag that holds iframe coming from
Shindig. Looking at the JavaScript source code used to render the gadget:-

CommonContainer.renderGadget = function (gadget, contentHolder,
userPreference) {
    var gadgetURL = gadget.Url;
    var el = $(contentHolder).get(0);
    var params;
    if (userPreference == null) {
        params = { userPrefs: cacheDefaultUserPreference[gadgetURL] };
    } else {
        params = { userPrefs: userPreference };
    }
    params["view"] = "home";
    if (gadget.viewType == GadgetViewTypes.Canvas) {
        params["view"] = "canvas";
    }
    params[osapi.container.RenderParam.WIDTH] = '100%';
    var gadgetSite = CommonContainer.newGadgetSite(el);
    CommonContainer.navigateGadget(gadgetSite, gadgetURL, {}, params);
    defaultUserPreference = {};
    return gadgetSite;
}; 

Any thoughts as to how we can improve things?

Kind regards,

Darren


-----Original Message-----
From: siever...@gmail.com [mailto:siever...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stanton
Sievers
Sent: 18 September 2013 16:34
To: us...@shindig.apache.org; dev@shindig.apache.org
Subject: Re: Rendered Gadget Display Scrollbars unlike iGoogle

+ dev list

Are you using dynamic height or width features in your gadget?

Are the height and width properties set in your ModulePrefs? If so, what
are they set to and are both containers honoring those values when
rendering?

Thanks,
-Stanton
On Sep 18, 2013 4:31 AM, "Darren Bond" <db...@globalcad.com> wrote:

>  Dear All,   We have a Shindig implementation and render our gadgets on a
> page using an ASP.NET wrapper.   When comparing how our gadgets render in
> comparison with the same gadgets on iGoogle, we tend to get content
> shifting and the introduction of vertical/horizontal scrolls bars. iGoogle
> avoids these issues somehow.   A sample screenshot can be seen here
> http://download.globalcad.com/Gadget_Appearance.png   Does anyone know of
> a
> workaround?    Many thanks.   Darren
>