Update 7/2/08 - My OEDILF Widget works again... so the problem must be fixed. Yay!Last week I noticed that the Google gadget I had created to display limericks from the OEDILF Limerictionary had stopped working. Bummer! Yesterday I finally got around to investigating. Turns out, nothing is wrong with my gadget, rather Google broke some stuff in their API. As of recently if you use the IG_FetchFeedAsJSON() function, you always get an empty response. This is broken in the "sandbox". Supprisingly blogger is in the sandbox, because any gadgets implementing this call are broken on blogger. My gadget still works correctly when viewed from iGoogle and other such non-sandboxy places. I'm not the only one this is affecting, many of the RSS based gadgets I tried are broken including BBC news, NY Times, Wall St. Journal. According to Google this should all be fixed sometime next week. In the meantime I'll have to get my limerick fix some other way.
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