Widget Development Question

I need help setting margins on my widget with CSS. I have messed around with the margin properties of CSS, but how do they work in a widget environment? When the CSS is in a widget, would the margin be counting from the edge of the background image? In Safari, the margin counts from the edge of the viewing window.
Please Help.
Thanks

Hi, the Apple Discussions are really meant for end users of Apple technologies, so it's usually hard to find answers to development questions here.
However, Apple does have excellent mailing lists (listservs) covering all their technologies for developers. If you post your question to "dashboard-dev" at lists.apple.com, you'll be sure to find a lot of helpful answers there. You can also try the forums at dashboardwidgets.com. Good luck!

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Hi JaiDeep
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http://nvpal168.pal.sap.corp:1080/wfws/foundationWS.jnlp
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Hello,
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--> http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/c032ae0a-7d6b-2a10-14a1-cc6efb066dfc
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Hi,
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Hi Ankur,
This happens sometimes because of the Eclipse that you use. Download the Eclipse JEE Version. When you go to eclipse.org and try to download eclipse you can do a comparision of the versions there, You download the version which supports all the web features.
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/ganymeder
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I have Downloaded Eclipse and also SAP Widget Developement tools.zip
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as
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create or replace
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Even though AJAX is as much Web (html, xhtml, dhtml),
JS, and XML as it is Java 2EE, See... you lost it right there. AJAX is not J2EE at all. Not one bit, not in any way shape or form. Yes, you can use J2EE stuff to service AJAX requests. But you can swap that J2EE stuff out with ASP or PHP or plenty of other things without effecting what the AJAX stuff does.
I figured this main
forum was the best place to ask a few questions so in that light, not really... but go on...
I've been writing AJAX servlets You mean servlets...
for the last couple
of weeks (more or less). It isn't bad at all but it
isn't as easy as regular servlets and web 1.0 stuff.How's that? It writes XML instead of HTML. That's not a very big leap.
Companies like IBM, Sun, Microsoft.... are getting
ready to deploy new AJAX centric development tools.
The only named development tool that I know of is
"Atlas" which is being developed by Microsoft
engineers. I'm sure Sun and IBM are doing the same
thing for future versions of WSAD / NetBeans because
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Do you think this, along with a few other publicly
disclosed technologies (comming in the next 5 - 7
years) will lead to a tech boom, surpassing the Web
1.0 days ( I do, the 1.0 days will be swamped by this
and a few other new technologies )?The discovery of AJAX (I say discovery, cuz it's been in browsers for a while now without anyone knowing about it) is already changing the web. But I while it'll lead to a lot of sites being reworked to work with AJAX, I don't think it's going to bring on a new golden age on the net.
Sorry for the non-technical questions but I'm bored
today, and I'm stuck at my desk for the next hour or
so.Isn't that what Solitaire is for?

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