[X4U] Leopard Features

Nick Scalise nickscalise at cox.net
Wed Aug 9 12:56:43 PDT 2006


---- "B. Kuestner" <kuestner at macnews.de> wrote: 
> > I can already think of some good uses for Widget Builder as well.
> 
> Let's see, how well it actually works in real-life. Thinking about  
> the Dilbert demo: Some pages put their new cartoon of the day always  
> at the same place: /somepath/.../dilbert.gif. But others rename the  
> content daily, e. g. /differentpatheveryday/ 
> differentfilenameeveryday.html
> 
> I doubt that the Widget Builder has such superb artificial  
> intelligence to pick up the rules behind that or at least some fuzzy  
> logic to make an educated guess and display the most likely content.

My take on the widget covering the Dilbert cartoon, isn't actually retrieving a file, but is just a 'window' to the webpage. I think they expect the image to be in the exact same spot on the page everyday.

If the webpage is re-designed with a new layout, the widget will have to be recreated.
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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net



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