Inline Google Gadgets will no longer be supported.
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/msg/a1ed341816f4e3c8
<<By middle of next week, inlined gadgets will officially become deprecated and blocked from being rendered on iGoogle. As promised, we will take a snapshot of all inlined gadgets that currently exist and specifically allow only those that were collected to continue rendering. >>
(Sat, Dec 8 2007 3:43 am) |
Interesting. Yeah, I suppose it was too big a risk in terms of letting through cross-site scripting attacks. |
Yes.
<<Inlined gadgets pose potential security risks to our users in addition to other complications with some API libraries, e.g. Analytics. They're more difficult to develop and cannot be syndicated via Google Gadgets For Your Webpage. >>
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/thread/05776dc1be6dfd0b/a1ed341816f4e3c8?#a1ed341816f4e3c8 |
in practical terms this means no more eyes following your mouse :)
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=eyes.xml
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Motti, I'm not absolutely sure this also relates to gadgets released by Google themselves (like the eyes following the mouse)... will ask Google... |
Google says "We've announced we're deprecating 3rd party inline gadgets" so I suppose that means their own gadgets will remain to be inlined.
As an update, Google experienced troubles rolling out the deprecation of inline gadgets so they temporarily rolled it back: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/thread/c2f7af5998d3a8b9/5d498c6253466f3c |