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.
