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Flickr widget as an example

I'm trying to figure out the Flickr widget. It's framework.kontx.js states that it's at version 0.2.2. From reading forum posts, it seems that I should be using version 1.1 to develop my widgets. So should I just ignore the Flickr widget as a deprecated example?

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  • we do not recommend to use flickr as a base example for your widget. Is there any particular part of the Flickr widget that you were interested in / need samples for?

    Oli
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  • QUOTE (Oli @ Apr 8 2009, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    we do not recommend to use flickr as a base example for your widget. Is there any particular part of the Flickr widget that you were interested in / need samples for?


    Yeah, I gathered that - the Flickr code didn't seem like best practice.

    I'm building a demo widget to display photos from Pikeo - our photo sharing & exploration property. Flickr was an obvious widget from which to derive our demo. After perusing the code, I decided to start from the Template widget and add functionality as necessary.

    Is there some sort of code repository for Yahoo TV widgets? It'd be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel when I'm accessing the Pikeo API for data.

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  • QUOTE (boscomonkey @ Apr 8 2009, 12:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Yeah, I gathered that - the Flickr code didn't seem like best practice.


    The Flickr widget was started before most of the Framework was written and thus diverges from what we suggest as best practices. It's being ported like all other widgets, just a longer process.

    QUOTE (boscomonkey @ Apr 8 2009, 12:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    I'm building a demo widget to display photos from Pikeo - our photo sharing & exploration property. Flickr was an obvious widget from which to derive our demo. After perusing the code, I decided to start from the Template widget and add functionality as necessary.

    Is there some sort of code repository for Yahoo TV widgets? It'd be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel when I'm accessing the Pikeo API for data.


    Not really. Feel free to ask how to do anything you are confused with here on the forums and I am happy to provide sample code as much as possible.
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