I don't think there are any major roadblocks you would hit with Shindig. However, I think Rave may be the better tool to use - it's backed by Shindig under the covers anyway.
I've cc'd the rave use group as well to get their opinion on your specific questions. Best regards, -Stanton On Jul 29, 2012 4:48 AM, "any bloke" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am making a public facing website and I am *very* interested in > using Shindig (possibly together with Apache Rave) to allow public > users to add Google gadgets to their "start page" in a manner very > similar to iGoogle. > > I'm going to be facing a steep learning curve to reach my goal, and > I'd just hate to be days or weeks into it only to hit a critical > gotcha that scuttles the entire plan. So I hope you don't mind my > attempt to pick your collective brains. > > So I was wondering... > > * Do you know of any reason why the vast majority of gadgets would > not run in Shindig? > > * Do you know of any category or type of gadgets that will not? > (Excluding those that depend on secured Google services, like Gmail) > > * Do you know of any problems that will prevent me from implementing > an iGoogle like experience for my users? > > * Do you have any other warnings or advice I should consider before > beginning? > > I understand that Shindig is about more than gadgets, which will be of > great additional benefit down the line, but at this time I can only > justify this project as a means to the end goal of hosting gadgets for > my website users. > > If this goal is workable in the short term, I hope that I will be > capable of giving back to the community in the medium to long term > with submissions to the code base. I will be new to open source > development, but I look forward to a chance to finally get involved. >
