My OperaBlog-widget test
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:36:38 PM
Opera have just revealed a hidden feature of Opera 9 by adding blog widgets to the Opera Community - these show a widget link in the address bar when you're viewing the blog... and if you click that then you get a groovy widget on your desktop (a little program "outside" Opera itself, in case who didn't know).
http://my.opera.com/community/blog/show.dml/357828
It's in the style of the blog itself (Serenity/W*Stock's blog-widgets are rather pretty) and contains the text of the last nine blog-posts for you to browse.
This is a test article to see how well these things update. It doesn't look like it will show when there's new comments or photos yet though...
http://my.opera.com/community/blog/show.dml/357828
It's in the style of the blog itself (Serenity/W*Stock's blog-widgets are rather pretty) and contains the text of the last nine blog-posts for you to browse.
This is a test article to see how well these things update. It doesn't look like it will show when there's new comments or photos yet though...
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MossMan # Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:51:52 PM
Hmmm... whoever designed the widget needs to do some more work!
After five minutes, it showed that this article had been posted (I see 1 unread item appear on the widget) but then when I tried to open it everything went messed-up...
I couldn't see any blog posts at all when I closed and re-opened it - although it's working again now.
I expect there will be improvements.
P*nutPeastock # Thursday, August 3, 2006 1:30:11 PM
MossMan # Thursday, August 3, 2006 3:47:15 PM
I have to go home now, but I'll try to remember to post a picture of what these widgets do tomorrow...