Brett,
Thanks for clarifying that. I guess this is as good of a place as any
to tell you about my gadget, Last Comments, which I built as a
replacement for the currently listed Recent Comments gadget. (If I
should put this message somewhere else, please let me know.) I have
two versions of my gadget, Last Comments 1.1 and Last Comments 1.2,
and they have both been submitted to the queue (the files are
http://lastcomments.googlecode.com/files/lastcomments.1.1.xml and
http://lastcomments.googlecode.com/files/lastcomments.1.2.xml ).
My gadget essentially does this: it retrieves the comment feed to
display on users' blogs, but it correctly unescapes comment contents,
which the Recent Comments gadget does not do, and my gadget allows
users to display their latest comments in any order with custom text
interspersed throughout while also allowing post titles and page
titles to be shown (neither are included within the standard JSON
comment feed). Version 1.2 has the extra ability to start with the
comments hidden and has buttons at the top allowing visitors to a blog
to show, hide, and reload the comments on the blog.
I have a blog dedicated to this gadget, http://last-comments.blogspot.com
, on which one can find the user manual explaining how to configure
it. I have tested my gadget out with the latest editions of all the
major web browsers for Windows OS and have Last Comments running in
the field on several blogs, including one that has steady daily
traffic. If you have time, I am interested in any feedback on it and
in getting it listed in the directory so that more people can enjoy
seeing their comments without escape code littering the text.
Regards,
Aratina Cage
On Oct 22, 5:07 pm, Brett Morgan <brettmor...@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Aratina Cage <aratina.c...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Brett,
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> > Should we take your response to mean that submitting gadgets through
> > the gadget submission interface (http://www.blogger.com/gadget-submit.do
> > ) does nothing?
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> Aratina,
>
> As I said, dealing with the backlog on that submit queue is a priority of
> mine. At this point I'd suggest both submitting to the queue, and starting a
> conversation with me so that I prioritise looking at your gadget.
>
> brett
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> > On Oct 21, 9:31 pm, Brett Morgan <brettmor...@google.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Andy,
>
> > > I am the Blogger Developer Relations representative and my goal is to
> > > help you guys with developing on top of blogger. Coming to grips with
> > > the Gadget publishing backlog is one of my top priority tasks right at
> > > this point.
>
> > > The short answer is, for the time being, I'm going to publish the
> > > gadgets of people that talk with me about what they are doing, and
> > > what they want to achieve. I need to come to terms with what you guys
> > > are doing, and this is the easiest way for me to do that. I can look
> > > at automating these processes once I have an understanding of what
> > > needs to be done.
>
> > > Blogger has a lot of power, and it does things that are not well
> > > documented. This is on my task list to fix. Blogger has a very capable
> > > and competent system administration team who look after the product
> > > carefully, and in a way that no self administered system could be
> > > looked after. When you build a system atop blogger, you can honestly
> > > tell people that your system is supported by a world class team of
> > > developers and system administrators with world beating technology and
> > > techniques.
>
> > > What I am currently working through is how best to support developers
> > > going forward. There are many options here, and I would like to hear
> > > your thoughts on this matter. I'm looking forward to working with all
> > > of you going forward.
>
> > > brett
>
> > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Andy <auntie_s...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > A number of people have raised the issue of gadget submission not
> > > > working.
>
> > > > Apparently there is a (permanent???) embargo see
> > > >http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=12a74fa2ac6b.
> > ..
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> > > > For the moment, barring feedback from blogger/google, developers may
> > > > be better off concentrating on Wordpress versions. In ignorance,
> > > > waiting for my blogger submission to be approved, I developed a
> > > > Wordpress version and submitted it to the highly visible Wordpress
> > > > plugin directory - 100 downloads in a few days.
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