Make Gittip easily embeddable in webpage via iFrame or via an API call

[richieb]

It will be great if we can integrate a small iFrame of Gittip on our website. In our specific case, the size of the iFrame will be 420px W x 145px H. Ideally, the user will be able to give without having to leave our site.

Can you make this happen, Chad?

Thanks.
Richard

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks for moving the conversation here, @richieb. This sounds potentially similar to #1167, which is stalled out. I believe you said in email that your timeframe is four weeks, which means we would need to interrupt our existing work in order to do this. Wanna make the case for that? :-)

[richieb]

I expect that our project will provide a major boost for Gittip over the coming weeks and months after we launch. And because we plan to have a permanent place for Gittip on our site, it is a huge opportunity for Gittip because it is free advertisement.

Now, I am not sure how long we will be able to keep Gittip on a prominent location on our site, but the plan is to make it easy for developers to use Gittip to give back to open source projects. So, even though we will likely move around the link (embeddable) to find the right location, visitors will no doubt always have access to Gittip on our site, providing we can have the embeddable functionality I am proposing.

[seanlinsley]

What website are you working on?

[richieb]

http://moderndevelopertoolkit.com/

[zbynekwinkler]

How many active users do you currently have?

[richieb]

@zwn
The Modern Developer Toolkit is a new project, as you will see from the coming soon page; we haven't launched it yet.

@whit537
Is this too much trouble to implement now? I thought perhaps you might have a feasible way in place already to do this, but if you have to implement this from scratch and it will be too much trouble, we can always go with a simpler, yet still user-friendly solution. Let me know your thoughts on this.

[zbynekwinkler]

Actually last night we were trying to find out the root cause of #1541 which can bring the whole site down. There are several possible ways to go around this, each with different trade offs (usually the more work the higher likelihood it will be fixed for good). I have a fairly limited time I can devote to gittip and I do not see myself working on your proposal until I feel comfortable with the overall site health. So unless someone else steps up and implements it I do not see it happening anytime soon :(.

In general we are happy for new integrations and more visibility. But we'd like to build it on a solid foundation.

[seanlinsley]

It will be great if we can integrate a small iFrame of Gittip on our website. In our specific case, the size of the iFrame will be 420px W x 145px H. Ideally, the user will be able to give without having to leave our site.

That sounds unreasonably small. Here are some examples of what can fit in that space:

[seanlinsley]

@richieb if this means a lot to you, we'd love to assist you in any way we can. But if you don't make a big deal out of it and provide your own thoughts (and if possible, code) to seed this effort, we don't have enough of a reason to dedicate our own limited resources to this. I'm downgrading this from ★★★ to ★★☆.

[seanlinsley]

Closing as stale.