E-mail me your version of the widget. I haven't had much of a chance to fool with the widget in a while, but I'll work on it.

Send to scoot241 AT gmail DOT com

Inspired by today/yesterday's Woot-Off, I spent some time playing around with this widget. I've made the following changes: Use the XMLHttpRequest object to get and read the woot RSS feed, added a request header to force it to always give a non-cached answer, made the request asynchronous so it doesn't hang the gui waiting for an answer, and tried to make the sold out logic work durring a Woot-Off (used the % sold). I also verified that the RSS feed is not updating the sold out st…atus correctly, so we will have to wait for woot to fix that. Not quite sure how to get this back into the published version or if Scott is even interested. I'll check back occasionally to see if Scott answers. More

"Sold out" has stopped for me as well -- but this is a very good and useful Widget.

It seems that the 'sold out' has stoped working. I LOVE this widget!!

Gene

@tom
The widget does refresh faster when a woot-off is happening. I believe it's initially set to update every minute during a woot-off, but can be adjusted in the preferences. I sent an e-mail to Dave to get the updated widget with the percentage left and will update the widget with that code incorporated.

@Petey Pete
That's a good idea. I'll look into it.