Netvibes Universal Widget API UWA on MooTools
Its been a couple of weeks since Ole pointed me to the growing use of my Netvibes TwitterKing Widget. I build this widget a while ago to learn the Universal Widget API by Netvibes and to be able to Twitter along with the rest of you. But by now there a already 500+ downloads. So to not let those and future User down, i decided to pimp up my little piece of Javascript art.
I was pretty surprised when i looked at the UWA code and found that they had taken a big gulp of the MooTools javascript library. Now we are getting somewhere i thought instantaneously. I work mainly with jQuery, but also hit prototype / Scriptacoulus, Rico, Dojo and Ext along the road. I´m exited to finally meet the missing babe and take it for a little drive.
I think it was the right decision from Netvibes to implement such an advanced lib in comparison to the raw prototype methods they had in there before. Now one can easily do funky stuff like DOM Element juggling(Drag/Slide/Sort) or DOM Element CRUD, besides just using the native extension of core objects (Array/Object/..).
This will definitely lead to a broader adaption by developers and will also lead to more interactive widgets. One of the first is the facebook Widget Netvibes just showcased.
Oh my… the TwitterKing update will be more than just a bugfix release 
For those that just can´t wait here is the link to the dev version of the widget. (Don´t expect too much i just fixed some bugs yesterday)
