Comments on: Widgets, WordPress.com, and Limits http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/ Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing Fri, 25 May 2012 15:11:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Expand your brand approach with Widgets http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-7315 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:47:11 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-7315 [...] Appl or Faceboook Widgets The Wonderful World of Widgets Inverstors take a stroll with Widgets Widgets, WordPress.com and limits Yahoo Widgets Amazon Widgets Comments (1) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment [...]

]]> By: James http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-3486 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:44:10 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-3486 It’s a tricky one.

There’s a school of though that says that it isn’t dangerous at all to allow javascripts (and evidence that it is) but I’m not sure as to why wp.com can’t afford to maintain and operate a whitelist of sorts (that’s what myspace uses right)?

Although there are a whole heap of reasons why they wouldn’t… such as ‘quality’ and ‘tone’ (there are many terrible widgets out there) and they’re in a great position to say ‘you want your widget in here, you pay us $x (and there’s nothing wrong with that).

Me, I’d love to allow javascript widgets through edublogs… but am too scared / don’t have the skills or time to develop whitelists… however, we have gotten round it to a degree through developing in partnership with widgetbox a widget that allows people to use up to 9 widgetbox widgets – which pretty much cover everything you’d want.

And Matt, widgets are last year for you :)

]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-3482 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:43:58 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-3482 Matt,
Thanks for stopping by. My answer to your first question is that I don’t think that the impressive growth of wp.com has been held back significantly by the restriction on javascript, and hence on widgets.
As to the future… while the article may overstate the widget case, I think that we are somewhere near an inflection point. While in the past widgets were seen as a cool extra, we are getting to the point at which people assume that they can widgetize blogs and other web sites, and feel let down when they can’t. I should admit that I don’t have firm data to back that up.
That said, I think it would be a good idea for you to be in talks with a reliable “widget broker.”

]]> By: Matt http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-3479 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:32:29 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/11/27/widgets-wordpresscom-and-limits/#comment-3479 Do you think the growth of WP.com thus far has been hindered by our decisions in that regard? What’s changing in the future that alters the landscape? Is this article an inflection point, or lagging on a trend from a year+ ago?

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