Netvibes Modules

Netvibes Modules

Recent Updates

4/13/06: All modules updated to new API stuff. I made much of the code better. I also added a new module; "Excuse of the Day". I have officially released the "Zoho Writer" module, as well (although it could probably use a switch to AJAX...).

Name	Description	Image
Excuse of the Day (See more information + source code)	Created April 13^th, 2006. Grabs the "excuse of the day" from Eric Meyer's website and displays it in either a "fancy" or "minimalist" style.
Zoho Writer (See more information + source code)	Created March 28^th, 2006. This module is an <iframe> loaded with Zoho's Google/IG and Pageflakes module. Very simple and clean. Todo: ~~Add "height" configuration option~~
Word of the Day (See more information + source code)	Created March 11^th, 2006. Using MagpieRSS and some home-made parsing code, it grabs and parses the XML feed from dictionary.com's Word of the Day.
Quotes of the Day (See more information + source code)	Created March 11^th, 2006. Like the Word of the Day module, it uses MagpieRSS to give me an easy way to display XML content. If anyone knows what Netvibes uses to parse external RSS, I would really like to know. Unless it uses JavaScript. JavaScript seems a little... inefficient... to me. I'm probably wrong.
FlashLoad (See more information + source code)	Created March 27^th, 2006. For now, this module uses an <iframe> to load the content of the external flash animation or game. In fact, I have put no restrictions on the types of websites that this module can load, so it may be more appropriate to call it a "Web Load." I intend to use exactly the same code for a "Google Mobile" module, which would display a website that has been parsed by Google to make it more cell-phone friendly. Conveniently, this would work well for any website that one wished to load onto his or her Netvibes page. By the way, I used an <iframe> instead of ALA's "standards compliant <object>" method because there is a major disadvantage when using an <object>: Flash content that relies on external files will not load properly. This way seems to work quite well, I think. Although I have not put restrictions on files that one might load, this doesn't actually work very well as a website viewer. Later, I might make a module for the "Bitty Browser" thing that is used on both Pageflakes and Google.com/IG.