12/26/2006

体验:一键Hack

veral readers asked me to write a tutorial on how to make a one-click widget installer, like the one I made for installing the Recent Posts Widget. Well, that seemed a good idea, so here it is. The purpose is to make you understand how it works, so that you can create your own. Disclaimer: Brainless copy-paste won't work.

Step 1: Create a Widget
If you want to create a Widget Installer, obviously the first thing you need to do is to create the widget itself. A real one-click-installable widget should contain all the necessary code. So if there is javascript-code that need to be installed, try to embed it inside the widget.
Just for the fun of it, let's create a Random Quote Widget (thanks Annie).
Open your Blog's template, add a HTML/Javascript page-element, set the title to "Random Quote", and add the following javascript to its content:

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