A while ago me and my wife created a simple Dashboard widget that displayed our current amount of bonus accrued at the foodstore “club” we’re in. Since the website was just using a form which accepted member ID and PIN code, and the only thing you could do with the club website was enter see that amount, I figured I could afford a little scripting. A short script (and a lot of fiddling with the HTML, CSS, and Javascript for the widget) later, we had single-keystroke access to the number.
And then it happens. The widget displays “undefined”, instead of “24.00”. A bit of looking around later, it turns out the shopping center club has turned its simple form into a bigger “portal”. Now, the page for the login sits in a popup window, that shows this Flash movie. Darn. I’m not disassembling that SWF file, nor am I starting up Ethereal to monitor what it does. This time this throwaway script gets thrown away. So there.
[tags]dashboard,widget[/tags]