Now include the php page in your sidebar.php

Now if the Widgets are loading slow it will not affect the loading of your front page, because the IFRAME will load as an independent document.

You may have a problem with DOM type of JS because you need to allocate the desired are in the IFRAME width and height.

I haven’t noticed any problems so far, but if anyone on dial-up, for example, is having trouble please let me know.

P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income; what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistics from Publishers Blogs are collected and used by Widgets, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission!

Something we neglected, but have been advised of, is the impact on Blog load performance from a Widget, and are adding this component in our investigation. Let us know if you have any experience with this.

P.U.B. expects to heard back from Lijit on the financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. When we do we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their deal.

Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.

Barney Moran
Founder, P.U.B.