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    9/16/2005

    Talking about start.com gadgets

    The following blogger hits a great point I have not emphasized enough. Gadgets for Start.com enables a completely distributed approach.

    Let me give two examples:

    You build a great new experience for rendering RSS feeds on Start.com. You host your Gadget on your site. Any other feed can reference and leverage your experience. 

    You design this experience as an inheritable base class. Anyone else can now subclass from your component hosting the derived version on their server. You do not have to host the base class. You merely have to include a reference to it in your manifest.  The framework can pull in the feed and class definition regardless of its physical location on the web.

    I fully expect Start.com to build and host on the Start.com site different RSS experiences that you can reference (without the security warnings since they are hosted by Microsoft) directly from your feed.

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    SteveX’s New Digs Blog Archive start.com gadgets
    Anyway, being able to essentially subclass another gadget is incredibly powerful. If you’re using Internet Explorer, you can test your gadget on localhost before posting it to the web somewhere, and there’s going to be an “Add this gadget to my start.com” capability at some point.
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