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About Mooglets and IE

Valerio — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:12:00 +0100

It seems there must have been a misunderstanding on what mooglets is, because people seems quite angry for it not being compatible with ie. So let me clear things up a bit:

Mooglets has started as a non-ie project, is a non-ie project and will remain forever a non-ie project.

Feel free not to use it if that bothers you that much, but sorry, we (Valerio and Giorgio) wanted to do for once a project without hacks, cracks, alpha filters, workarounds, css fixes, !important hacks and so on. We did it and it has been Damn Good not to worry about ie. This doesnt mean in the future mooglets cant work with ie7. We’re talking about ie6 here. If the new version is good enough, we’ll probably add compatibility for it.

Again, let me clear things up a bit…Mooglets doesnt, will never, ever, work in ie (6). Its not because its impossible, but simply because we didnt want it to. Its a side project, a demostration on how things can work smooth and look good without the worst browser on earth. No hacks, no alpha filters, no additional fixes. A real relief. Feel free to judge it useless. “We’re trying to move the web forward”, thats why we need to have UP-TO-DATE tools to program our stuff with, and not be forced to use the same hacks over and over, or be forced not to use the latest time-saving features all browser have just because Ie doesnt.

This is not software for everyone to use (like moofx) this is a software only people who dont use ie6 as their primary browser can use.

Anyways, thats just my point of view.

Diggin' Mooglets

Andrea — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:11:00 +0100

So we’re up on digg — see for yourself. We’ve fixed some bugs so play around with the mooglets and send us your comments. As for the mooglet api, that’s still in the works…but coming soon. So stay tuned.

First Post, and mooglets

Valerio — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:44:00 +0100

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