FIG is a Google Gadget used to inspect what gadget features are supported by a gadget container in which this gadget is run. This gadget also provides links to pages with additional info (documentation and tutorials) about respective gadgets.
Knowing about what gadget features are available is useful for finding out what a particular gadget container can support, which can be useful for:
- either finding new sites and social networks where your existing gadget may run
- discovering what features are available in a gadget container, some of which you might (want to) use and make your gadget more compelling
- learning more about gadgets (using direct links to relevant documentation)
Originally, gadgets.util.hasFeature method from OpenSocial API was intended to be used
for checking what features are supported by the container. Unfortunately, this method is useless
in Apache Shindig since it always returns true for features that are declared by
gadget itself and not whether gadget container actually supports the particular feature.
Such behavior is totally against the gadget specification which states:
"The server MUST support the following core JavaScript API, which applies to
features:
gadgets.util.hasFeature(featureName)
As indicated in the JsDoc, this method returns true if the server is able to satisfy
featureName, false otherwise. Gadget developers can use this functionality to enhance their
gadgets if features are available without disabling their gadget if the features are missing."
This problem was worth the attention since Shindig
is the reference implementation of OpenSocial API specifications and the most widely used
OpenSocial container implementation on actual social networking sites.
The problem with hasFeature function has been observed in Shindig implementations
of the OpenSocial spec until and including version 0.9.
Using FIG, gadget developers can learn which gadget features are actually supported by a gadget container.
More information about gadgets in general you can find here: http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/spec.html
OpenSocial containers are also gadget containers so any social networking site supporting OpenSocial can also run this gadget.
Some of gadget containers in which you can run this gadget are:
- social networking sites: MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, Ning, XING, etc.
- personalized home page: iGoogle
- web mail: Google Mail
- collaboration tool: Google Wave
Additional OpenSocial containers can be found at: Container Information
- Nenad V. Nikolic [email protected]
- Christopher Blum [email protected]
June 1, 2010
- Gadget re-tested in iGoogle, Google Wave, Ning, Yahoo! Application Platform
- Added ning feature detection
March 25, 2010
- Added osapi.ui feature detection
March 23, 2010
- Added LinkedIn feature detection (linkedin-ext)
- Added Netlog feature detection (netlog, payment)
January 11, 2010
- Binary date (11/01/10) release :)
- Disabled opensocial-i18n detection which isn't working with Apache Shindig yet
December 31, 2009
- Added StudiVZ features "cache", "vzflash", "invite", "tracking"
- Added "opensocial-payment" feature
- Added a smaller screenshot
- Fixed "atlassian.util" feature detection
December 22, 2009
- Added license
- Reformatted README into markdown syntax and added more info
December 18, 2009
- First public release
- Included Orkut token
- Changed Google Analytics account
December 4, 2009
- Added simple Google Analytics tracking
December 1, 2009
- Adjusted/fixed some german translations
- Added author_link to gadget meta data
- Removed unneeded "external" css class
December 1, 2009
- Fixed l10n
- Added missing Serbian translations
November 30, 2009
- Gadget is localized to English (default), German, Spanish and Serbian
- Added affiliation
- Added default (English) screenshot
- Adjusted font-size, doc links are opened in a new window
- Gadget is now fully compliant with gadget specification
- Message extraction didn't work in this version
November 27, 2009
- Renamed gadget file to fig.xml
November 26, 2009
- Added Feature Documentation column for links to docs and tutorials for respective features
- Added table header
- Added atlassian-util feature
- We like short, catchy names so we've introduced one (FIG) and a corresponding gadget logo
- Code refactored
- Added check for google.blog and sharedmaps features.
- Adjusted html.
- Added info for unchecked features
- ALPHA version, Please test.
November 11, 2009
- The first and also a proof-of-concept version.
FIG - Feature Inspector Gadget, find out what gadget features are supported by any gadget container. Copyright (C) 2009 XING AG
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