Hi Bruno
Can you please clarify, if I don't change anything the width would be 835 as it is today? Is it correct? thanks On Feb 22, 5:04 am, "Bruno Oliveira (\"btco\")" <bru...@google.com> wrote: > Hello orkut developers, > > We now support two cool new features for gadgets in canvas view: > > - Container version detection > - Flexible application width > > A quick introduction follows. We hope you enjoy them! They're enabled on > sandbox and should reach production soon. If you have any feedback, please > let us know! > > *Container Version Detection* > The Container Version is supplied to your gadget in a new iframe parameter > (containerVersion) in canvas view, so it can be retrieved like this: > > var containerVersion = gadgets.util.getUrlParameters()["containerVersion"]; > > Its value is 1 for the canvas view container in the old orkut UI and 2 for > the canvas view container in the new orkut UI. You can read this to > determine which container your application is running inside of. Please be > aware, however, that "container version" is not the same as "orkut UI > version"... for now, there is a 1-to-1 correspondence (1 for old orkut, 2 > for new orkut) but this may come out of sync when we launch new container > versions or new UIs. > > *Configurable App Width* > That's right, we now support configurable width for applications in canvas > view! > You can specify a "preferred width" to orkut in your applications XML by > means of the preferred_width attribute of the Content tag: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <Module> > <ModulePrefs title="Yourtitlehere" > author="authorhere" > author_email="email_h...@......com" > description="Description here...." > screenshot="http://url/of/a/screenshot/of/your/app"; > thumbnail="http://url/of/the/thumbnail/for/your/app";> > <Require feature="opensocial-0.8" /> > <Locale lang="en" country="us" /> > </ModulePrefs> > <Content type="html" *preferred_width="900"*> > <![CDATA[ > > ... > > </Content> > </Module> > > The container will try to allocate your indicated width but might have to > crop it if it's too big and expand it if it's too small. The actual width > will be reported to you in the "gadgetWidth" iframe parameter. > > Some points to take into account are: > > - The preferred_width parameter will only be taken into account when > rendering your application on container version 2, but will be ignored in > container version 1. > > - The container might or might not honor your preferred width depending > on the available space. > > - The gadgetWidth iframe parameter is only available to your application > in container version 2 and above. This is the "slight catch" we were > talking > about above. > > Therefore, the correct way to determine your application's actual width is > first testing the container version and then, if the version is 2 or above, > reading the gadgetWidth parameter. Otherwise (container version 1), the > width of the gadget is fixed at 835px. So an example of Javascript code > would be: > > // Determines the actual width of the application > function getActualWidth() { > return (gadgets.util.getUrlParameters()["containerVersion"] >= 2) ? > gadgets.util.getUrlParameters()["gadgetWidth"] : 835; > > > > }- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
