The Google Gadget To Display An RSS Feed

Google universal gadgets are mini applications which may be placed on Web pages. They are widgets that one can places also on the desktop, or on the personal iGoogle page. An RSS feed may be displayed by a such gadget.

Gadgets and widgets

One is bewildered facing the fatras of formats of widgets from various sources. There are the widgets of Vista which are displayed on the desktop, those of Yahoo, based on Konfabulator, those of Netvibes which are placed on a personal page of their site and finally there are the gadgets of Google which do all that at the same time.
The widget term is seen like the contraction of "Windows"? and "gadget"? also Google uses the second term for those which one places on Web pages. And among these gadgets the one which interest us here is the gadget of RSS feed presented below:

Producing such a gadget is of an astonishing simplicity, there is practically only the URL of the feed (an XML file build by Ara or another tool), to give to the interface of Google and it provides you a JavaScript code ready to insert in your pages, nothing more!
To find this interface, it is necessary to follow the hierarchy of the Google site devoted to gadgets.

Google gadgets

The way to arrive at the interface of creation of the gadget of RSS feed is given to you below.

The page of the gadgets

The Google gadgets. On this page you choose between a widget for your office, like those of Vista, or a universal gadget, which can be put on a Web page.

The creation of a gadget

Create your universal gadget.
This page led to the guide of developer of universal gadgets. It is indicated to you how to place your creation on your personal iGoogle page or a Web page. If you want to submit your realization to Google so that it adds it to its gallery, you can do it from there or directly on the submit form .
You have also a link on the gallery of gadgets for Web pages.

The interface of creation of an RSS gadget

Gadget for your page.
You are here on the page which indicates how to use a predefined gadget, which is the case for RSS. Click on the button "Start now"? in top on the right. You have the gallery. Type "custom RSS"? in the search bar at top.
A description is displayed, type "Add to your webpage"? and that let appearing the interface of creation.
In the field "Feed URL"??, type the address of an RSS feed, such as for example: http://www.scriptol.com/rss.xml.
Choose the title, the border and the colors which are appropriate to you then click at bottom on "Get the code"?.
The JavaScript code which is then provided can be placed anywhere in a page of your site.