We would like to use the Google Gadget concept in our corporate Intranet. Our infrastructure implies no external web dependencies.
The way I understand Google Gadget is that the gadget xml file requires some pre-processing before being displayed in a Html page:
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://mysite.com/my-gadget.xml
Is this mean I cannot render a gadget in a Page without this pre-processing?
Thank you
Not sure if this helps, but it is also possible to have google widgets make use of secure data behind a firewall by using the the Google Secure Data Connector
The browser still needs to have access to google servers to execute the widget, just data requests will be made to google and then be proxied back to a service running in your network which will then fetch the data.