Already, a Wave gadget emulator!

You can’t wait to put your hands on a sandbox account, right?

Well, there is little chance you can start to see something working if you check in the surroundings of  the API sample codes since you will probably just find…

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Well, there might be something to calm you down a bit.

Vidar Hokstad,  Aardvark Media’s Director of Technology, has developed a gadget emulator at some scale. The author himself says it’s “a tiny little bit of javascript to reimplement just barely enough of the gadget API to allow some of the demo gadgets to run side by side in two iframes.” but I believe that’s enough to help us comprehend a little better about what all this is about.

Playing with the Gadgets API emulator

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As I said above, you can find these demo gadgets and their sources in here. And you can find the source of the emulator, in case you want to help to improve or to modify it, in here

Now it’s probably time to put your hands on it!

We believe that checking the source and the xml files of the samples above and trying them in the emulator is great to learn. We will definately use the emulator on future explanations about the API.

You can find some more information about the emulator here:

Emulator’s announce page

SVG Proof of concept – This last is the update that Mr.Hokstad made to his Gadget API emulator. Us, just like him, we hope that the Google team will offer some invitations soon. ( And we pray they will consider us as candidates… )

Tags: Emulator, Google Wave


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