Thursday, 16 August 2007

Of Widg-Away


Today I've unpacked a Widget or two to see whats going on inside it. Unfortunatly however I don't have Dreamweaver installed on my laptop at the moment so viewing the XML/JS file in notepad is a nightmare!

However, I have played with Yahoo!'s Widget Creation script that plugs straight into Photoshop (CS+). All you do is create your image, load up the script and you are presented with a dialog box. Input Widget name, author, version, etc. Hit OK and it goes off and creates the widget folder for you. This holds all the XML, JS and resources. The main file is a .kon file that holds the main XML and JS stuff.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks Andy and will be pulling apart some more widgets and reskinning them, playing with the scripts.

Off for now...