Understanding Google OpenSocial Snow Rider 3D
OpenSocial was Google's attempt at a universal social networking API. It ran from about 2007 to 2011, and Snow Rider 3D was one of the more popular games you could embed as an OpenSocial gadget. The gadget format was basically a piece of XML with an info.xml manifest and some HTML/JavaScript inside. If you are trying to run one of these today, you are going to hit a wall pretty quickly. Here is how it actually worked. You would write or download a gadget XML file that told the host platform what to render. Inside that file, you included an