Hi All,
I want to create a Social App on orkut but having many doubts. Though I've read
the Developers Guide on orkut but no clear about the basic concept of this new
growing technology. My doubts are below. Please try to help me.
0) First and the most confusion for me is what is the Gadget file? Is this
contains the actual application which we want to show on orkut or any other
social site. Coz what I'm getting is, the Gadget file and our actual
application are two different things, physically atleast. Our application will
contains our data to show to user and the gadget file will be needed to connect
it to the social container and making our application open social oriented by
using the legacy gadgets libraries.
1) The actual content of my application which will be visible on orkut, means
the web-site which I will create, should reside on my web-server?
2) Can I create this site in any language - PhP, ASP, ASP.Net to make it
dynamic?
3) If yes, then how could the Gadget file (XML file) which resides on my server
will
connect to/show this site content because the Gadget file can contains only
HTML & Javascript. How could I render my site content in the gadget file in
such dynamic environment where the data comes from a Database.
4) If I use content type=url in the gadget file then my whole site gets pull
down at orkut and without any other codes to be written in the gadget file!!!!!
5) If we can do the above with so ease then why there is so many libraries
created like, gadget.* API, legacy gadget API. What are their use?
6) I know RESTful Data API is not on the stage right now coz no container is
supporting the 0.8 version but what is the use of this so called Server side
API tool. In the future do we need to create our site in this API to get on the
Social Network?
I know the list have gone pretty long and somewhat difficult to answere but
considered to have a thought on.
I'm stucked at my first stage of the development coz Im not getting a clear
idea about this.
Please try to answere my queries.
Thanks in advance.
Javed Iqbal.
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