What are the Module Plugin guidelines?
• Design the size of the docked module plugin to fit into the space in the module area • Keep the plugin title compact to ensure it isn’t truncated • Keep CPU intensive tasks to a minimum • Ensure that contents loaded into a plugin are safe • Use “load at sign on” with extreme caution, as it impacts AIM load time. If people don’t want to load AIM because it takes too long, they won’t be using your plugin! • Your Module Plugin page is part of the AIM application, so try to avoid stealing focus away from the client unless the user is interacting with your Module Plugin. In other words, do not call the focus() function in your javascript. • Do not set requiresSession to true if your Module Plugin does not access window.external.client.primarySession or window.external.client.buddylistSession • Do not set requiresDom to true if your Module Plugin does not access window.external.window.dom • Unless your Module Plugin is marked as “loadAtSignon”, the startup page in your Module Plugin will b
