2 widget request

[dsim87]

Sarah could you let me know if you think you will have time to do a UVA schedule for football, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse in one and a washington nationals widget?

If not is there a good how-to to make them and keep them looking like your style of widget?

[Sarah]

Sarah could you let me know if you think you will have time to do a UVA schedule for football, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse in one and a washington nationals widget?

I am considering doing an MLB widget, but I probably won't make a formal decision until it gets closer to the next season. I do not have time to do your UVA widget, since what you are asking for is different than my usual style.

The maintenance of my existing widgets has become quite a chore. My widgets don't use data provided by an XML feed, which would have a standard, easy-to-process format. Instead, I parse the schedule information from various HTML pages. These pages are on sites I don't control, and frequently these websites change their layout. Every time their layout changes, my widgets break, and I need to modify my code. Also, when the Yahoo! Widgets team releases a new version of the engine, which usually occurs or twice once a year, I modify my widgets to take advantage of the newer features available and fix things that broke because of their changes. And since Yahoo! Widgets is cross-platform, I test my widgets on both Windows XP and Mac OSX.

The software life cycle for my widgets never ends. Consequently, I have cut way back on widget creation and have no plans to create any new widgets (other than college or NBA widgets in my existing style) that I won't use.

I'm sorry if that sounds harsh!

If not is there a good how-to to make them and keep them looking like your style of widget?

If you want baseball and lacrosse included in the UVA widget, you will need to scrape virginiasports.com for that information. I had started doing something similar with the UF All-Sport Widget, but I never finished; I lost interest, and it's been in beta for the past 2 years. I can email you that widget code if you want. It should help you get started.

There are tutorials/guides to widget-making here:
http://widgets.yahoo.com/workshop/

[gb972000]

I would also like to voice my support for an MLB widget, maybe it could be made similar to the NHL/NFL Team Schedule widgets. That would be great if you can (or decide to) get around to it.