Yahoo Widgets are JavaScript applications that run on Yahoo Connected TV.
Yahoo Widgets are run on the KONtx framework that allow the developer to play media, display dialogs and obtain information about the television itself.
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How to select the nth item in xpath 1.0?
I have some XML and an XPath query. I'm using Yahoo! widgets, so I'm using XPath 1.0.
Here's the gist of my XML...
speak.swf
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How do I install a Yahoo! Connected TV Widget on a TV so I can test it?
I am developing a Yahoo! Connected TV Widget (using tools including the simulator provided by Yahoo!) How can I install my widget on a real TV so that I can test it?
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Yahoo! Connected TV playback events
I'm trying to subscribe to onTimeIndexChanged mediaplayer event. It works fine, as long as view that I'm subscribing in stays focused. When I press back button, or widgets button, my view gets blurred and it no longer receives events.
Is it possible…
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How do I get my widget not to crash if there is no value in a xml node?
I'm getting an xml file and want to get data from it.
The source of the xml doesn't really matter but what I;ve got to get a certain field is:
tracks = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("track");
variable =…
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Processing dynamic MP3 URL
I am using Yahoo Media Player for playing MP3 songs on my website.
I have put some static MP3 links on site.
For e.g.
Song1
Song2
And I have put the YMP JavaScript API code also.
Now, I want to load the songs…
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How to remove insert image button from Yahoo Rich text editor
I am using ThickBox 3.1 one one page.
Now, there is one problem,
i am using one form to open thickbox on the button click event.
And i am using yahoo text editor on that form.
And in the yahoo rich text editor there is one link of image insert..…
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Google Desktop Gadgets vs. Yahoo Widgets
I am trying to figure out which widget development platform is superior. I want a cross-browser widget and so I a thought either the Google or Yahoo solution will be best. They both seem to be using the same technologies - JavaScript, HTML, XML,…
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Dynamically adding song tag in yahoo web player in not working
I am using Yahoo web player and certain steps in order to add song to yahoo web player playlist.
I am displaying list of songs.
On click on a song creating a dynamic song url using jquery and appending in the div tag.
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Sony TV web application development (Google TV or Yahoo Connected TV widgets?)
Our customer asked us for the web application demo on Sony TV. I quickly found that for Sony the situation is a bit different then on LG, Samsung or Panasonic and seems to be much worse. There is no Sony web SDK for TV developers - there was a…
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Widget Framework Resources
So, my boss wants me to look into creating a widget for our product. Something to keep our users abreast of their information easily. So, I'm looking through the interwebs and it seems I have quite a few options. Google Widgets, Konfabulator/Yahoo…
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javascript image into byte array
Is there a way in javascript for binary file manipulation like C. I'm in a critical situation to create an fliped image. I don't have support for css, canvas, HTML, DOM. But I have to do that with only using javascript. If it allows me to load an…
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Using JSON in a Yahoo! widget
Haaylp!
The Yahoo! Widgets spec says I can parse JSON objects using JSON.parse(). When I actually try this, and here is what I tried...
var parsed = JSON.parse('{"key": "value"}');
print (parsed);
for (p in parsed)
{
print ("prop: "+p);
}
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How to use Xpath in Yahoo! Widgets to traverse a tree?
I'm creating a Yahoo! Widget and have done this before without any problems (creating a widget).
I'm getting a xml document via a weblink and want to get all the nodes intro a tree. I'm doing this:
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
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no DOM for Yahoo! Widgets web objects?
I have a Yahoo! Widgets Web object and I'd like to access elements inside of it when it's done loading. I'm already handling everything wonderfully via the WebEvents Y!W provides, but there's one small problem.
Web objects don't appear to have any…
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why is link generated in YUI javascript failing to render in rails?
Using YAHOO.widget.treeview to generate a table with three levels of data: module, submodule, and detail. If there is an image associated with a detail row the javascript generates a link:
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