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themes and updates to gadget framework

9:27 pm - November 23, 2005

Themes a lot of folks were missing granite and ice from start.com, so we ve added themes click on settings and pick your favorite color … we have more themes in the works, including more color choices, having different background images colors, etc. Gadgets we have made some updates to our gadget framework. Our framework is an evolving platform and you may experience some issues from time to time with some of the gadgets on MicrosoftGadgets.com. We are working diligently with the authors to update their gadgets. Thanks for your understanding… Happy Thanksgiving

Windows Live Safety Center gadget

8:46 pm - December 15, 2005

Now you can keep your pc safe using the Safety Center gadget. Check it out by selecting Safety Center in the gadgets folder on the sidebar. The gadget provides the following: Last Safety Center scan date and type Summary of last scan results Recommended action based on last scan information Top threats feed Links to Safety Center web site enjoy!

Windows Live Safety Center gadget

8:46 pm - December 15, 2005

Now you can keep your pc safe using the Safety Center gadget. Check it out by selecting Safety Center in the gadgets folder on the sidebar. The gadget provides the following: Last Safety Center scan date and type Summary of last scan results Recommended action based on last scan information Top threats feed Links to Safety Center web site enjoy!

Opera 9 support

9:09 pm - December 15, 2005

Our goal it make Windows Live the best homepage experience on any browser… We ve been working with the Opera folks and are happy to announce that now you can enjoy live.com on Opera 9 preview. enjoy!

Opera 9 support

9:09 pm - December 15, 2005

Our goal it make Windows Live the best homepage experience on any browser… We ve been working with the Opera folks and are happy to announce that now you can enjoy live.com on Opera 9 preview. enjoy!

gadget updates and more

9:17 pm - December 15, 2005

We have released a few updates to gadgets on live.com that we hope you ll like: Enjoy quotes of the day in a more friendly view, you can find this gadget listed under the gadgets directory in the sidebar Now you can view the change on the stock gadget and sort your stocks by change or name if you re a hotmail user, you can delete your emails from within the mail gadget now discover gadgets built by the community, by clicking on the more link under the gadgets directory and a few other other updates: make live your homepage by clicking on the link in the footer IE only for now stay up to date with changes to live.com by clicking on what s new which links to this blog … we ll keep you posted with the latest on live.com on this space. enjoy!

gadget updates and more

9:17 pm - December 15, 2005

We have released a few updates to gadgets on live.com that we hope you ll like: Enjoy quotes of the day in a more friendly view, you can find this gadget listed under the gadgets directory in the sidebar Now you can view the change on the stock gadget and sort your stocks by change or name if you re a hotmail user, you can delete your emails from within the mail gadget now discover gadgets built by the community, by clicking on the more link under the gadgets directory and a few other other updates: make live your homepage by clicking on the link in the footer IE only for now stay up to date with changes to live.com by clicking on what s new which links to this blog … we ll keep you posted with the latest on live.com on this space. enjoy!

gadget developers… gadget away!

9:26 pm - December 15, 2005

now you can specify the following types for our proxy: quot;rss quot;, quot;generic quot; or quot;none quot; this is useful when developing gadgets example Fetch RSS feedvar r Web.Network.createRequest Web.Network.Type.XML,m feedUrl, proxy: quot;rss quot;, numItems:m numItems ,OnContentCallback ; Data sources can be specified in the manifest XML and will be made available to the gadget as an xml response object. This simplifies fetching data in a gadget since the gadget author no longer needs to call CreateRequest. The syntax is: you specify these in your manifest.xml file lt;item gt; lt;link binding:type quot;xml quot; name quot;mainui quot; gt;http: www.somewhere.com mainui.xml lt; link gt; lt; item gt; lt;item gt; lt;link binding:type quot;xml quot; name quot;rss quot; gt;http: www.somewhere.com rss.xml lt; link gt; lt; item gt; and reference it in your js file Gadget.Demo function p elSource, p args, p namespace Gadget.Demo.initializeBase this, arguments ; this.initialize function p objScope Gadget.Demo.getBaseMethod this, quot;initialize quot;, quot;Web.Bindings.Base quot; .call this, p objScope ; Embed xhtml fragment from the mainui xml p elSource.innerHTML p args.xmlSources.mainui.responseText; Process RSS var parseRSS Start.Parser.ParseStartResponse p args.xmlSources.rss.responseText ;

gadget developers… gadget away!

9:26 pm - December 15, 2005

now you can specify the following types for our proxy: quot;rss quot;, quot;generic quot; or quot;none quot; this is useful when developing gadgets example Fetch RSS feedvar r Web.Network.createRequest Web.Network.Type.XML,m feedUrl, proxy: quot;rss quot;, numItems:m numItems ,OnContentCallback ; Data sources can be specified in the manifest XML and will be made available to the gadget as an xml response object. This simplifies fetching data in a gadget since the gadget author no longer needs to call CreateRequest. The syntax is: you specify these in your manifest.xml file lt;item gt; lt;link binding:type quot;xml quot; name quot;mainui quot; gt;http: www.somewhere.com mainui.xml lt; link gt; lt; item gt; lt;item gt; lt;link binding:type quot;xml quot; name quot;rss quot; gt;http: www.somewhere.com rss.xml lt; link gt; lt; item gt; and reference it in your js file Gadget.Demo function p elSource, p args, p namespace Gadget.Demo.initializeBase this, arguments ; this.initialize function p objScope Gadget.Demo.getBaseMethod this, quot;initialize quot;, quot;Web.Bindings.Base quot; .call this, p objScope ; Embed xhtml fragment from the mainui xml p elSource.innerHTML p args.xmlSources.mainui.responseText; Process RSS var parseRSS Start.Parser.ParseStartResponse p args.xmlSources.rss.responseText ;

improved search experience on live.com

10:53 pm - December 20, 2005

We just released some significant and needed J updates to the live.com search experience. This includes fixes for some of the top user complaints, so we hope that you ll enjoy these. Some of the highlights include: Improved UI Search results now span the full page Improved UI for search tabs aka filters Browser back behavior we re really excited about this one in particular : Click on a search result, filters, pages and click the browser back to go back to your previous search results state Permalinks Improved add to page experience, with control over number of results and tabs

 
 

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