HTML widget - what have you found?
By Joe on Tuesday, March 17 2009, 10:40 - SiteMaker features - Permalink
So, it's been a month or so since we released the alpha (early testing) version of the HTML widget. We've had nearly 250 people download and try out the widget in our website builder from our site labs.moonfruit.com, so we know you've been using it. But the thing we want to know is what have you been using it for?
We're working away on getting the widget ready for a beta release (slightly more robust), which we will distribute more widely. And once we've done that we can start to produce specific versions for the things you want to use it for.
But firstly and update on the bugs. You might remember that currently the HTML widget only works correctly if you view the site using Internet Explorer 6 or above, with Flash Player 10. So for Firefox users, it displays the HTML content below the site so they can still see it, but its not ideal.
We've had some exciting news from Firefox that the bug that prevents the HTML widget correctly displaying in your site for Firefox users will be fixed in the 3.1 release of the browser, due sometime in the next couple of months (hopefully). This is great, as this bug was something we couldn't fix ourselves.
The main bug that we're looking at on our side is why some HTML snippets don't load correctly, which seems to be mainly those that use external JavaScript files in the HTML, e.g. Google AdSense or any Google Gadgets widget. Hopefully we'll be able to fix that too and open the net wider.
Once the HTML widget is fully robust we hope to be able to offer many different pre-configured flavours of it. There will always be the generic 'paste in any HTML' widget, but we'll also do some that are focused on particular services. For example a Youtube multi-video player (http://www.youtube.com/custom_player), or a twitter widget (http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/twidget). Both of these work with the current HTML alpha widget.
So which ones have you found that you like? Which HTML widgets do you think we should make available as pre-configured choices? Let us know and we'll add them to the list. Can you add a link to the widget you are using so we can see it?
As our customers you have the best idea about the things you really want to use yourselves, so if we can add them we will. Thanks for your help.
Comments
Well I've started using it with Google Calendar as I find it much more flexible and user-friendly compared to the current Sitemaker calendar widget. I'm sure I'll find more uses for it in the future, especially when more of the bugs have been worked out. Great work so far though!
Do you have a link to it working? I'd be interested in seeing it.
I have used this Widget to make my Paypal functions more versatile.
so i created a button in Paypal that has a stock counter so after i have run out of a specific item Paypal states that it is not for sale making it a less manual process for me.
It also allows for drop down's so you can pick certain sizes of a product.
I think this is one of the best things to happen to Sitemaker as it opens the door to almost anything.
Keep up the good work guys. (and gals)
Hi Raymond, do you have a link to this? Thanks, Joe
I wanted to see if I could create a table using the HTML widget so exported one from excel. I'm using IE6, Flash 10 and several browser.
I have found that IE6 shows nothing, both Firefox and Opera display the table but unfortunately below the boundary of the web page. Can anyone suggest what I can llok for in the HTML code.
BTW can someone advise the easiest way to manage table data on Moonfruit.
Hi Craig, Excel may not create the cleanest HTML code, and it may be that it doesn't work in some browsers, hence the problem in IE. Do you have a link to the page with the code on it?
Joe
Hi Joe,
I was one of the guys who downloaded the HTML Widget and have tried it on a few things and I think this idea from Moonfruit to get around the HTML issue with a flash based application is a step in the right direction.
I used the widget as some sort of a headliner for my forum and you could check this out below:
http://www.ksa-uk.org/#/aboutus/452...
Keep up the grand work at Moonfruit!
Lamin
I have recently built, and still in the process of finishing, an online portfolio for my recent work (however primitive), using Moonfruit and I found the HTML snippet quite useful. I am currently using the snippet to display the twitter flash html app to allow my updates to be shown on my site. Using Internet Explorer I have found no problems displaying the twitter app on my homepage, but when viewing the site with Firefox it only displays the app on the bottom of the screen, = (. The link to my site is http://isaac-volpe.moonfruit.com/, if you care to take a peek.
Cool. Thanks Lamin, does that take the feed from your moonfruit forum?
Joe
Thanks Isaac, saw it, looks good ;-). The Firefox issue is a known issue due to a bug in the FF browser. They have fixed the bug, which will be released in the FF 3.5 update, which should be out in June. After that we can make the HTML widget work in FF too. Thanks,
Joe
Hi Joe,
Yes the feed is taken from my Moonfruit Forum.
Thanks,
Lamin
Love this little idea, would hope it works eventually with all browsers.
Really want to use this for affiliate programes
Luke
I don't have any problems viewing or adding the widgets on my mac using Firefox 3.0.7 or Safari 4 beta.
I would love to change out the video player on my site to a youtube player if I could confirm this on the windows side of things.
I downloaded the widget and I have used it to display the latest weather in Florida for my website www.emeraldislandtownhouse.com
I cut and paste the code from www.widgetbox.com and it works great.
So I think a weather widget would be a great idea.
Thanks
Martin
I have used it to provide live chat service to my visitors with providesupport.com. Seems to work fine, but only with "html code for websites where scripting is prohibited"...
No link here since I have used a hidden test page.
Very nice job.
Well done!
I cant get my "godaddy" domain certified seal to appear in your widget. Although it does contain java in the html script. Will this work soon?
Well I am completely new to website building so it could be me! I used the widget to insert the code for a webring I have joined. However it does not show correctly on the page the icon and navbar are missing. If I click show page in html it shows up perfectly I am using IE7. Not sure what is wrong?
The widget is brilliant!
I use it to place a badge on my site which links to my royalty free portfolio of illustrations-
and can now get referral fees from this link when somebody signs up and buys from the site.
I am so non-technical its not true but this was easy to do
thanks Moonfruit
I used it for a lot of widgets but deleted them as not everyone uses IE...
Hi guys, am loving the new widget as now i can have cool video players that connect to my fav vids on you tube.
Before had to have numerous players everywere but now i can fill up from you tube and feed straight to my moonfruit site.
Thanks for all the great work !!
it's wicked - doing the job great - thankyou...
Twitter would be a great one to have.
does anyone relize moonfruit is not working?
Thanks guys for the comments.
VC, the system is working fine and we haven't had any downtime or errors. If you do have problems accessing your site or you do now can you raise a support ticket and let us know what you mean by 'not working', any changes to your system, your broadband access, your location for access and if possible who your ISP is.
If you have problems accessing your site still and can't reach the support section then please use: http://www.sitemakerlive.com/en/sup...
Thanks
Hi,
Tried the Skype button html and found that it does not translate the presence. i.e the Skype button does not show you are on or offline. Would be nice if you fixed that. I'm using IE8
This HTML Widget Is Great It Works Great With What I Use I Use A Website Called "Kickapps" You Can Find It On Google This Site Allows You To Let You Turn Rss Feads From Youtube Playable You Can Custmmize Playlists Etc...
Great Fun!
Thanks Moonfruit!
Hiya, I'm using the widget with some code for the analytics programme Woopra, it sort of works although it's difficult to see the specific pages accessed by visitors since it only displays /cgi-bin/snippet.cgi for all the pages where I'm using the html widget but I'm hoping with the advent of the beta version its functionality should be improved. Thanks for the pioneering work tho..xx
Hi,
Good widget but can't get the following code to work properly:
<div id="lrep9815731" style="width: 350px;">Data loading....<a href="http://full-time.thefa.com/Index.do...">click here for OSFL Premier Division</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thefa.com/FULL-TIME">FULL-TIME Home<a></div>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var lrcode = '9815731'
-->
</script>
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://full-time.thefa.com/client/a..."></script>
The code is generated here: http://full-time.thefa.com/CreateCo...
It doesn't complete loading to display the league table as it should, see here: http://www.olympianleague.moonfruit... . A fix would be fantastic!
Cheers
Damian
The HTML widget is very useful but i think it has caused a bit of a problem on my website, all link buttons are disabled and can not be deleted.
Im sure with more work the HTML widget will be very good so keep up the good work :-)
Any news on when it will work for google chrome?
How can I add twitter widget to my website. I saw a moonfruit website http://www.seeitlocal.co.uk/ and it has the twitter widget. Can somebody pls tell me how it is done.
Regards,
Vikas Rajput
Hi - love the widget - great for adding Amazon links but we're trying to get links from Borders using the same widget but it's not appearing. Here's the html script if any tech bods out there can work out why it doesn't work, I'd be most grateful!
<a href="http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awin..." onmouseover="self.status='http://www.mybeautifulmind.co.uk'; return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Borders</a>
thanks
Vicci
Ran a couple of experiments regarding compatibility with Firefox.
The widget doesn't work in Minefield 3.6
The widget however does work in 3.0.10 when you change your user agent to IE7/NT6.
...give it a go.
I wanted to use the html widget to incorporate paypal's website payments pro button code, which allows users to pay by credit card without having to sign up for a paypal account.
When I pasted the generated button code into the widget, it displays the paypal button, but when clicked takes me to a paypal page that says "Sorry — your last action could not be completed."
Is this a mis-function of the widget, or am I doing something wrong on the paypal side of things?
Will these issues be fixed with Opera and Google Chrome? I'd really like an answer or an update please.
I use JAlbum to display my photos to clients, and I would love to embed this within my website, rather than providing a link. When I tried it (as the album provides an embed code) I just got one photo up and when you clicked on it, it was just a link... it would not run within the site. I also tried a selection of the downloadable widgets, like google weather etc, but couldn't get any of them to work. I did manage to get a google map on one page. I think it's a great idea and would be really excellent for my sites, especially the school site I run (www.waterortonprimary.co.uk)
I am trying to add a Windows Media Player Live stream to my website. When I set the player to autostart the audio doubles.
Any suggestions? Could this an issue with moonfruit or the code I am using?
<OBJECT id='mediaPlayer' width="250" height="229"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/active...
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>
<param name='fileName' value="http://URL">
<param name='animationatStart' value='true'>
<param name='transparentatStart' value='false'>
<param name='autoStart' value="true">
<param name='showControls' value="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<param name='loop' value="false">
<EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'src="http://site URL"
id='mediaPlayer' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='-1'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="1" showtracker='-1'
showdisplay='1' showstatusbar='1' videoborder3d='1' width="250" height="229"
>
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
im having the same problem robyn and cant work it out - any ideas when the html code will work for chrome ????
Hi folks, browser issue responses below:
FF3.5 has gone to RC1
The Chromium team (the folk behind the Chrome browser) have accepted bug we lodged relating to this and have made a bug available for someone (anyone) to pick up and fix.
Opera has just released a new version. We have not tested this.
Thanks
I would like to add a 'share' button to a number of my pages from www.addthis.com.
To do so I need to Copy and paste the code snippet below into my pages, between the <body> and the </body> tags. Apparently, if my website uses templates, I can also copy the code into my template, so the button will appear on all of my pages automatically. | Anyone any idea how I can do this please? - I am less techy than a non techy!
Today, Thursday 2nd of July 2009, I cannot access my account or the moonfruit site. It seems that there are a lot of outtages with moonfruit.
On my www.testersite.moonfruit.com, I have put on a live streaming webcam.
To be able to do this is a big part of a lot of work I am going to be doing
in the near future with a range of clients. I was delighted to see that the
live feed embedded fine into the page and worked.... but...... when I navigate
away from the page I have embedded it on, it remains in sight on the new page.
I know this is a beta version, but is there anything I can do to prevent this?
Why would it embed and they remain in sight even on different pages? PLEASE can anyone help! If I can't get this to work, I am going to need to find another web building package as it is fundamental in the work I am about to start. Such a shame as I LOVE Moonfruit! Any help gratefully received.
This widget does sound like an innovative solution to the problems of Flash.
The thing I totally want and have expressed is an ability to 100% escape Paypal and use Google Checkout or other Payment solutions that are viable for me but also my Art buyers.
I hope that within the summer even if new ecommerce solutions are way off that this viable Widget will allow me to get away from the horror of having your Paypal funds frozen seemingly at will.
It sounds like you are really working on improving you're service and it's a fantastic development
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I also to want to use Google Checkout...Paypal does not suit my business and tend to my needs where as Google Checkout does....what I find with the beta version of the htlm tool is that whne I insert the code inside the edit page it always appears at the bottom of the website and not in the position I want...can ay one help?
I would like a widget for FACEBOOK status updates on my site. That would be a good pre-configured widget!
are there any major +'s to google checkout?
PayPal now has a new trick, they keep a "rolling balance" of funds you get from sales, basically they take 8% of every sale you do and hold it for 90 days to help prevent charge backs, this will cripple some smaller sellers and companies working with tiny margins, I have worked for a company who works on 12% margins how can they expect people to survive in todays climate, I can see what they are trying to do but I think 90 days is quite excessive!?
The widget works great for affiliate banners.
I'm now trying to work out how to make it do product feeds. Very stuck though.
Any help would be very appreciated. email me at: info@magic-offers.co.uk
Isit possible to add on local news feeds? and is it also possible that clients can upload their own advertisements and pictures on to the site in a set format for my web page?
Any help would be appreciated.
I've also, like Damian, tried to get the html website to display a league table generated by Full-Time, the FA's website. It would be really useful for me to be able to display results and league tables direct from this site rather than having to manually change it each week.
I am curious as to why some of my javascript html-snippets don't work.
I would really like to include a mobile detect and redirect script, as well as one from Wibiya for feedback etc.
One needs to be installed in the page header and the other before the main <body> tag.
It would be great if Moonfruit could enable this type of control
Hi PLEASE HELP.
I am in no way technical but have managed to pull a site together for work. It looks fine in Safari but when opened in IE it's all over the place.
Does anyone know how i can fix this please? Really appreciate any help
www.changeresource.co.uk