Open-source AJAX widgets available from Dekoh

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Rajiv
Filed Under Applications, Widgets, Announcement.

As a precursor to releasing our open-source desktop-web integration platform, Dekoh; we are rolling out some AJAX widgets under open source license. Developers can use these widgets with their applications and provide feedback. These widgets will be self contained with core functionality and the styling/UI elements. The data model for these widgets is pluggable, allowing developers to provide custom implementations for their backend programming model. You can find out more about Dekoh Widgets here.

New widgets will be released every week during the run-up to the product release. The AJAX tag cloud widget is now available. The tag cloud widget can be used as a navigation tool or as a tag management tool. The widget has built-in features like: time/usage/freq filters, sorting, built in styles, cloud/list view. As a tag management tool, it supports edit options like: add/delete/merge/rename. Below is a screen shot of the tag cloud.

Tag Cloud Screenshot

It has a pluggable data model for fetching information from the backend application. Try the live demo of the widget fetching the sample tags from the backend as an XML using AJAX. Here’s another demo of the tag cloud fetching the tag data using JSON.

To find out how you can embed it in your application or to download the widget source visit the documentation page. If you want to tweak your data model or want to use the widget with Ruby on Rails, you can go over the documentation here.

If you have used the widget with any other programming model or have any comments/feedback or feature requests, do leave a comment.

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6 Responses to “Open-source AJAX widgets available from Dekoh”

  1. Digital Doctor on February 24th, 2007 3:27 am

    Blessings and Peace:
    Tag clouds are alright, but they’re so ‘already out there’. At least if a cloud tag is going to be done, let there be a ‘next level’ or ‘twist’ to it.
    For example: the tag cloud in the demo was large enough, that actually its foot print could be cut in half; with the other half housing a i-frame. The result being that when someone clicked on the tag cloud, they would be taken away from it; but would rather end up seeing at least micro-content connected to that particular tag.
    This could pave the way for a tag-cloud that showcases excerpts from blog posts, photos, headlines, etc. All of this right in the same widget. A powerful path to smooth syndication of micro-content.
    A Tag Cloud with Its Own Little Window.

  2. marco on May 18th, 2007 3:29 am

    How can I enbed this or a similar tool on my blog?

  3. Tag Cloud for blogs on May 26th, 2007 3:30 am

    Marco, you can use http://www.tocloud.com/ to create a tag cloud of your blog. Check out the http://www.tocloud.com/users.html to see how people are already doing this.

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  5. Craig Thompson on November 8th, 2007 3:05 pm

    Sorry if this info is available on your site - I couldn’t find it:

    Could you please provide more details on the specific open source license under which you have made the TagCloud widget available?

    What about the open source licenses of any dependent open source products upon which the TagCloud widget relies (if any)?

    Are there any requirements for how users of the TagCloud widget must inform customers of their product about the license used by the TagCloud widget?

    Thanks much,
    Craig

  6. Rajiv on December 3rd, 2007 6:42 am

    Hello Craig,

    The TagCloud widget is provided under BSD license. You can find more details here: http://www.dekoh.org/wiki/view/DekohWidgetsLicense

    Regards,
    Rajiv

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