[Chandler-dev] Testing Quick Entry Google gadget

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Folks,

I'd love it if people could give the new Quick Entry widget a try.  It 
works with iGoogle, but you don't need an iGoogle account to try it out.

To get started, just click on 
http://fusion.google.com/ig/add?synd=open&source=ggyp&moduleurl=http://widgets.osaf.us/google_entri.xml

The gadget does *not* currently work with IE6, but it's been tested 
lightly with IE7, Safari, and Firefox.  More testing with these would be 
great.

The gadget currently talks to the Chandler instance running at 
widgets.osaf.us, which is a copy from a few weeks ago of Hub, so you can 
re-use your current Hub account details without fear of polluting your 
Hub account.

Things to test:
- Choose different collections
- List of collections, username, and selected collection persist between 
iGoogle sessions
- List of collections changes after "Refresh collection list" (logout) 
and logging back in as a different user
- Create a note by clicking the Send button
- Create a note by using the keyboard shortcut (Shift-ENTER)
- Ascertain whether you see a status message as you send your note
- If you have an iGoogle account, log in to iGoogle from different 
browsers, check that changes to selected collection/logging out are 
reflected when refreshing iGoogle in the other browser

A few notes:

The Google version of Quick Entry persists a list of collections and 
tickets with Google (not your password, because it's exposed in the URL 
and thus could leak out in referrer logs).  URLs can't handle more than 
2K of data, however, so the total number of collections saved is limited 
to 10.

Next steps are, once we've had a little more testing, to add a link to 
the gadget from the hub login page, and to add the gadget to Google's 
directory of gadgets.

Thanks!
Jeffrey