Before today, If you saw a Google Friend Connect Gadget in a blog, when you clicked the photo of a follower in that blog, It would load the details of that user within the blog gadget. This is no longer the case. No you will get each user detail in a Lightbox. Before you could also get the whole widget in a Lightbox by clicking the full screen icon in the gadget. Now this same mode is for all uses of the gadget.
At first i thought: “Oh, ok. So this is the new default mode. I guess they added the other mode as a option”. So i went to the layout settings of the Followers Gadget but there is nothing there. So this mode is now THE ONLY mode you can have. My problem with it is that it happens to be very slow in any browser that is not Google Chrome (1-3 seconds vs 3-10 seconds in other browsers). Maybe they decided to go this way to end the problems the previous version has on actually showing or making the transitions within the gadget frame. Something that happened often.
I still wish there was the option to have the other mode from the gadget layout settings. In the meantime i will start looking for a third party made Google Followers Gadget to see if they support this option. But well now you know.
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Lijit says that you can set up your Lijit account directly from the Blogger Gadget if you are not registered and that it will look this way:
But i found that with a failed attempt at least in the 3 browsers and at the two resolutions i also checked, i got this instead:
But you still do can set it up directly. By entering your Blog name as username so Google takes care of doing the account for you.
Now you need to set what E-mail and Password you want for your Lijit account and click the “Register Now” button. Once you do it will start loading your gadget:
Then you will have to wait another 1 minute for it to show this:
Now refresh your blog again and it will be there in its default look:
When a user does a search with the lijit search gadget, it will show up in a Lightbox unless you customize it to be implemented differently:
I like the lijit search gadget, i think it a good addition if you want your blog not only have extensive search, but make it more social and networked. Even then, it is not always recommended to do this depending on your habits, blog subject, etc. So it is up to you to decide that.
Linkage:
Lijit <—Homepage
Lijit Feature List <—Search Feature Guide
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