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Google AJAX API Playground

66 points by bdfh42 18y ago

euroclydon 18y ago
I really like those boxes that he uses to structure the site. I looked in the source... Does anyone know if the ShadowContainer is available as some type of JS library?
- mridulkhan 18y ago
  If you use mootools try: http://mochaui.com/demo/ http://mochaui.com/demo/
redorb 18y ago
This is a great resource for mashup creators.
- bdfh42 18y ago
  Its a great resource for anyone who (like me) learns by doing rather than browsing through on-line documentation.
axod 18y ago
Very cool :) The guy that wrote this hangs out at irc://irc.freenode.net/googleajaxapis which is also a great place to ask questions on any of the APIs :D
thomasmallen 18y ago
Is there a shortcut for "Run"?
theklub 18y ago
Nice, I've been wanted to learn more about AJAX. This will def help.
jpwagner 18y ago
Does anyone know of a tool like this that can make webservice callouts?
pj 18y ago
Doesn't work in Opera...
mlLK 18y ago
Wow. This really beats the hell out of w3schools tryit editor.
chime 18y ago
I love the Google AJAX APIs. It took me less than an hour to make an Ajax Wiki Search ( http://chir.ag/wiki/ http://chir.ag/wiki/ ) using it last year and I use it all the time. The thing that's not clearly evident when using these examples is that it's not just replacing a one-time REST/XML call with JS but a real-time ajax query which means we can call it in some pretty nifty ways. I've used the chart API in an internal app such that the user gets a real-time feel of the data as they change the parameters without having to hit "Submit" every three seconds. Also note, the motion api is derived from the Gapminder organization they acquired in 2007.
lisbakke 18y ago
euroclydon -- I wrote a blog post about how I did the shadows: http://buildingonmud.blogspot.com/ http://buildingonmud.blogspot.com/ thomasmallen -- A shortcut for run is a good idea... you should add it as a suggestion to my issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/issues/list http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/issues/list Also, don't forget my code is all open source: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/source/browse/#svn/trunk/interactive_samples http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/source/browse/... You can pull it down from SVN and run your own local copy w/ app engine dev server in 10 minutes.
mridulkhan 18y ago
This is really useful to everyone exploring their APIs. I just found that the visualizations can render unicoded bangla text, which I had assumed wouldn't work since it didn't work in the charts api. edit: Bangla is only working where they're using svg. Still broken in the bitmaps. Does anyone know where to file bug reports?

66 points by bdfh42 18y ago

I really like those boxes that he uses to structure the site. I looked in the source... Does anyone know if the ShadowContainer is available as some type of JS library?

mridulkhan 18y ago
If you use mootools try: http://mochaui.com/demo/ http://mochaui.com/demo/

redorb 18y ago

This is a great resource for mashup creators.

bdfh42 18y ago
Its a great resource for anyone who (like me) learns by doing rather than browsing through on-line documentation.

axod 18y ago

Very cool :) The guy that wrote this hangs out at irc://irc.freenode.net/googleajaxapis which is also a great place to ask questions on any of the APIs :D

thomasmallen 18y ago

Is there a shortcut for "Run"?

theklub 18y ago

Nice, I've been wanted to learn more about AJAX. This will def help.

jpwagner 18y ago

Does anyone know of a tool like this that can make webservice callouts?

pj 18y ago

Doesn't work in Opera...

mlLK 18y ago

Wow. This really beats the hell out of w3schools tryit editor.

chime 18y ago

I love the Google AJAX APIs. It took me less than an hour to make an Ajax Wiki Search ( http://chir.ag/wiki/ http://chir.ag/wiki/ ) using it last year and I use it all the time. The thing that's not clearly evident when using these examples is that it's not just replacing a one-time REST/XML call with JS but a real-time ajax query which means we can call it in some pretty nifty ways. I've used the chart API in an internal app such that the user gets a real-time feel of the data as they change the parameters without having to hit "Submit" every three seconds. Also note, the motion api is derived from the Gapminder organization they acquired in 2007.

lisbakke 18y ago

euroclydon -- I wrote a blog post about how I did the shadows: http://buildingonmud.blogspot.com/ http://buildingonmud.blogspot.com/ thomasmallen -- A shortcut for run is a good idea... you should add it as a suggestion to my issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/issues/list http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/issues/list Also, don't forget my code is all open source: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/source/browse/#svn/trunk/interactive_samples http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/source/browse/... You can pull it down from SVN and run your own local copy w/ app engine dev server in 10 minutes.

mridulkhan 18y ago

This is really useful to everyone exploring their APIs. I just found that the visualizations can render unicoded bangla text, which I had assumed wouldn't work since it didn't work in the charts api. edit: Bangla is only working where they're using svg. Still broken in the bitmaps. Does anyone know where to file bug reports?