it is comfirmed..

Woot made a change to the RSS feed which made the Widget unhappy. Fixed.

scott oliver please help us out!

i have the same exact problem as you.. its just been "updating..." or "loading..."

Up until a few days ago, this was my Woot! widget of choice. Did the RSS feed change again? All I get now, is the "Updating..." message in the upper right-hand corner, and "Loading..." near a B.O.C. in the main window. Nothing else happens; nothing changes.

I'd give this widget 4 stars, if it would... 1.) allow shorter refresh times during Woot-offs 2.) play a special sound (customizable?) for each new Woot-off item 3.) Show the % of item remaining to be sold (as on woot.com), as opposed to the % of item already sold.

Thanks for a wonderful widget!

There is no better woot widget for woot-offs.

Thank you dydimus, this is one widget I will always have running!

One suggestion - a checkbox to make the damn light stop spinning during a woot-off. Dan has some great ideas below.

Very handy widget, but I just added a few changes to my copy that I'd recommend for the official version:

Inside the "if(request.status != 200)" branch of processFeedUpdate:

titletext.data = 'Loading error (' + request.status + '):'; // helps understand the problem
refreshInterval = preferences.wootoffRate.value; // in case it's a woot-off, refresh frequently