First Post, And Mooglets
published in blogs by Valerio
Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 11:44 PM
Hello everyone, and welcome to the freewebs farms blog. I have the honor and the pleasure of writing the first entry of a (let’s hope) long series.
I’d like to introduce you a friend of mine, his name is mooglets. He is many things, a newsreader, a web2.0 personal homepage, a development platform, a widget framework. Somebody says he quite resembles mac osx dashboard, but he runs in your browser, so no macintosh needed.
You can easily develop a plugin for him, called mooglet, and this mooglet can stay in your server, but more details on this are coming in the next weeks.
So, why dont you make him a visit? He can be your friend too. But dont get mad at him, be patient, he’s still in beta stage.
The interaction with this anthropomorphized tool is quite straightforward: Push “add a mooglet”, chose one from the list and you’re good to go. Move mooglets around, duplicate them, play with em, change their options. Dont ever drag one outside the screen!
After you’re done, dont forget to press the save button, so next time you visit him he will remember you.
Please, let us know what you think of this early demo, we really want your suggestions!
And that’s all for now, see you in the comments.
Valerio Proietti
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27 comments so far.
1
Valerio
said...
on Thu 13 Jul at 11:51 PM
Yay! First comment!
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Andrew
said...
on Tue 18 Jul at 12:31 PM
This is pretty!!
3
Pat
said...
on Thu 03 Aug at 11:56 AM
After I added one mooglet, I can’t add any more.. When I click “add mooglet” nothing appears anymore….
SAFARI 2.0.4
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Valerio
said...
on Thu 03 Aug at 12:51 PM
Sorry, there were some tweaks in progress, all should be ok now
5
bluesaze
said...
on Thu 03 Aug at 07:15 PM
Wow looks nice …. would it be possible to put on webpages
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Bob
said...
on Thu 03 Aug at 08:50 PM
I wondered what you’ve been up to, Valerio. Thanks for being such a helpful innovator. Be happy to check this out.
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Predrag Drljača
said...
on Fri 11 Aug at 03:16 PM
Very nice, indeed :) I’m happy to see that people share their creativity (I hope I wrote it corectly :/ )
Little bit offtopic: how to achieve effects from this very site like those when hover over RSS feeds or hover over link in text?
Thanks, Pedja
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Michael
said...
on Sun 13 Aug at 10:46 AM
I am really impressed. In fact, a minute ago I examined your CMS, mooflex, and I was at least equally impressed :) Keep up the good work!
Ah, one more thing. Is IE really that standards-incompliant? To access the test page I had to use my long-unused, dusty copy of FX. You should be realistic - most people still use IE.
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Andrew
said...
on Thu 17 Aug at 07:07 PM
Re: Michael.
Its really depends on your ‘target auidence’ whether if the majority of your users use IE.
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Justin
said...
on Mon 21 Aug at 06:28 PM
Andrew, what you said is a joke… 75.88% of users are browsing the web w/IE, so their “target audience” is going to include a good number of IE users. Saying “f’ em” to 3/4 of your potential user base is not smart. Furthermore, the whole point of developing a web app rather than a windows/linux app is so that it can be accessed by all users.
I’m agreed w/Michael on this one, they do need to be more realistic and find a way to support IE. With Atlas you can do the same drag & drop functionality and it works in all browsers so they have no excuse why they can’t get it working in IE.
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Valerio
said...
on Tue 22 Aug at 07:27 PM
@Justin: “Furthermore, the whole point of developing a web app rather than a windows/linux app is so that it can be accessed by all users.”
It can be! Firefox can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX… Internet explorer simply cannot be used to display a large amount of transparent images as backgrounds (32 bit PNGs).
But dont give up on hopes: since internet explorer 7 supports png images with Alpha Transparency, expect a working version for ie7 when it comes out.
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James
said...
on Wed 23 Aug at 10:45 AM
I have to say I’m with V on this one. Though obviously any production website designed to deploy information via the ‘net needs to offer consistent quality regardless of the browser, mooglets does not fall into this category.
As more of a tool/application than source of information, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to require your users to install some specific software to handle it. It seems even less unreasonable when many of your users already have that software installed, there are several options for said software (Firefox isn’t the only standards-compliant browser) and the software is free.
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seventoes
said...
on Wed 23 Aug at 04:00 PM
Hey everyone! Ive managed to figure out a bit of the mooglets API for people who want to make their own mooglets. Have a look at http://www.mebluedragon.com/moog-docs/
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Akhmad Fathonih
said...
on Thu 24 Aug at 03:48 PM
@Seventoes You should install Firebug, you can read the whole JS ;)
Uh oh, mooglets look neat. I’ll play more later. I’m currently looking for a widget container for creating mashups. This should be a good candidate :)
Thumbs up!
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Malcolm
said...
on Thu 24 Aug at 06:34 PM
Valerio, there are plenty of reasons to forget ie6, but don’t let alpha transparency on png’s stop you! there are fixes available…
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Mario
said...
on Thu 24 Aug at 07:52 PM
You don’t support IE. Come on! Moo.fx is built off the cross-browser framework Prototype. How hard is it to support IE. This is currently a usless peace of fluff until it supports IE. Do developers live in a “smug bubble”. I know its beta n all but comon… even in beta it should have IE support. I bet it doesnt support Sarafi either (similer code support to IE, its a mix of gecko and ie syntaxs).
On the positive it is a cute name! 8)
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Valerio
said...
on Thu 24 Aug at 07:54 PM
Malcom, I know! But try to use pngs as backgrounds in componentized draggable divs along with alpha opacity ie fix with links and handles on top :)
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Mario
said...
on Thu 24 Aug at 07:55 PM
there is a work around for transparent png images in IE6.
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Malcolm
said...
on Thu 24 Aug at 08:34 PM
hmmmm, that might be a bit more than I’ve tried, but I have got most of the way there… (sorry for the plug!) log in as demo at dobrado.net.
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Inviz
said...
on Fri 25 Aug at 02:59 AM
The only stuff that can not be done in ie is animated pngs. Because for pngs you can not set background-* (i e position) css options.
Everything other could be set by css filter thingie
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webdev
said...
on Fri 25 Aug at 04:45 AM
and while your at it implementing the IE filter workarround indeed, no positions there but crop and scale wil get you there just as easily, you might just as well skip the dusty prototype lib for a freshly squeezed jquery and remove stupid imcompatible msg get this .. and that .. browse happy shit. I hate when ppl do this (remember that crapy K2 wp theme) well it looks like were back in the 1995 camp with netscape 4 and IE. if you can not get it to work it is just your incompetence like mine for communication.
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phani
said...
on Sun 27 Aug at 10:32 PM
I like the mooglets…
to be added(suggestions)
That would make it a simple and good looking start page that will be love by one and all
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Grybs
said...
on Mon 28 Aug at 01:09 AM
Not bad suggestions, phani.
Bookmarks are an interesting one, though. Users of can currently syndicate their bookmarks using the RSS feed reader… perhaps more intergrated support would be better than a standalone bookmark system.
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sp
said...
on Mon 28 Aug at 04:11 AM
What about ‘zero’ value in update time for feeds? I
m limited in traffic, and most of the rss I read update not very often (say, weblogs of my friends). This is what Im suffering from at netvibes.25
Grybs
said...
on Tue 29 Aug at 04:28 AM
Hmm, that should have said ‘users of del.icio.us’ — must’ve done something to anger the markdown gods.
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Craigs-free-stuff
said...
on Fri 06 Oct at 10:11 AM
i think it is cool! i will really check it out on my PC, cause i have firefox. this is on my moms PC, and she does not like firefox, lol, looks cool
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Wazzy
said...
on Sun 08 Oct at 11:56 AM
Wow, just came across this and I’m really impressed. Very nice work!