Question

How do hosted services like UserVoice embed their content on other web sites?

I see that it is via including a JavaScript file from the service provider on your own page, however, what I’m interested in are the building blocks for creating a service like that.

For example, do they use a library like jQuery, mooTools, or prototypejs and how do they avoid namespace clashes?

Also wondered if there were any books, articles, blog posts that go over this specific use of JavaScript (not looking for general resources on JavaScript).

Regards and thanks in advance,

Eliot

Answer 1

Here is a great tutorial I found on How to build a web widget (using jQuery)