Some of iGoogle's gadgets were inlined with Caja. Those are probably the ones you have seen
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Darren Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Thanks for the comments. It's an inconvenience more than anything else and > something we can probably accept. I was just looking over some previous > footage of iGoogle in operation and it seemed to provide a seamless move > operation with no visible refresh at all. Presumably it was refreshing the > content but somewhat more subtly. > > Kind regards, > > Darren > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Franklin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 04 December 2013 13:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Gadget Content - Reloading/Refreshing on Move > > Hi Darren, > > IFrame Reloads during movement in the DOM are something that the browser > controls. Not sure if it still does, but firefox would always reloaded > iFrames if they were reparented. > > At my last company, we found that refreshing the content on a gadget move > was not a blocking issue as users rarely repositioned content within their > pages. Is this a major issue for your solution, or just an inconvenience? > > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Darren Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > We have developed a gadget solution initially using Shindig with ASP.NET > > pages. The beta site can be seen here http://beta.blueg.com > > > > > > > > We are using the http://jqueryui.com/sortable/ jquery plugin for gadget > > drag > > and drop. > > > > > > > > However, we are having some issues when gadgets are re-positioned on the > > page and wondered if such issues had previously been encountered whilst > > developing Rave? Initially when this occurred under IE, gadgets would > lose > > their data and consequently appear collapsed (IE displayed several error > > messages such as 'unescape' is undefined). > > > > > > > > It transpires this was likely a problem relating to moving iFrames in the > > DOM, similar to the issue described here > > > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8389261/ie9-throws-exceptions-when-loadin > > g-scripts-in-iframe-why > > > > > > > > We've made some changes to successfully remove the IE errors by clearing > > gadget content during each move operation. We did so with reference to > this > > article > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg622929(v=VS.85).aspx?ppud=4 > > > > > > > > However, the above solution is unsatisfactory since each time users move > a > > gadget, its content is re-loaded. > > > > > > > > Can anyone help with a coding sample that achieves the movement of > gadgets > > without the need to clear gadget content and which also works under IE? > > > > > > > > Your help is much appreciated. > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > > Darren > > > > > > >
