Re: [Openinteract-help] Re: [Templates] Internetlinks in OI

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

* Chris McDaniel (Chr...@te...) [011010 09:31]:
> 
> Just a note - this concept of putting arbitrary external content in
> a box in OI is basically the concept behind plumtree's 'gadgets',
> which is uber-cool.  If someone is going to be taking this on,
> making the handler such that parameters posted to the dynamic URL
> get passed back to the content generator remotely (like a gateway)
> so that you could use external cgi/servlets/whatever in a box, would
> be fantastic, and probably take OI to another level entirely.

And even further: once retrieved from the other site, OI can perform
actions based on where the content was retrieved from or the content
itself. For instance, you can create a box that gets triggered when a
user requests information from a URL concerning baseball that grabs
the latest box scores from somewhere. (Or even the box score from the
user's favorite team.) Or even modify the content from the other site
with links, highlights...

Fun stuff :-) (but probably OT for the TT list)

Chris

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