Hi Darren,

For the modules that state that they are built-in, like weather and gmail,
iGoogle is bypassing parts of Shindig and loading an iframe pointing
directly to their content.  You can see this if you use an HTML inspector
on iGoogle look at Gmail.  Its iframe's src attribute points directly to
gmail instead of to a Shindig server, e.g.,
https://mail.google.com/mail/ig/mailhome?hl=en&gl=us...

If you look at some of the other gadgets, like this translator gadget [1],
you'll see it is using Shindig as its iframe's src attribute indicates:
http://www-ig-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/ifr...

I can't think of a way in which you could handle this easily.  On the
client-side, Google has ignored the iframeurl that is returned by Shindig
and are using their own.  And I don't see any information in the gadget XML
itself that indicates what URL they plan on using, so I'm not sure how they
are generating that data.

[1] http://www.gstatic.com/ig/modules/dictionary/dictionary_v2.xml

-Stanton


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Darren Bond <db...@globalcad.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Within the description of some gadgets there appears to be no real content
> within the <Content type="html"> tag of the gadget's specification. An
> example of this is the Weather gadget...
>
> http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=www.google.com/ig/module
> s/builtin_weather.xml
> http://www.google.com/ig/modules/builtin_weather.xml
> How should we operate and handle such gadgets?
>
> The following test site highlights the issue:-
> http://beta.blueg.com/test/personal.htm
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Darren
>
>

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