September 28th, 2009 | by Jeff Scudder | published in Google Ajax API
In partnership with the Google Chrome Frame team, we are making available a library to allow your web application to detect the presence of Google Chrome Frame. We on the Ajax team are excited about the possibilities of this add-on improving JavaScript performance and enabling some of the new features available in HTML5. If you have a web application which makes use of these new features, you can use this library to prompt the user to install Google Chrome Frame, or recognize when a user has just installed it. The library provides granular controls so that you can create the user experience which best suits your site.
As a short example, I’ve created the following simple demo which just detects whether Google Chrome Frame is installed or not with an alternate message if you are in a browser for which this plugin is not available.
Do you have Google Chrome Frame installed?
We’re checking on that now.
Ben Lisbakken has also added detection for Google Chrome Frame to the Ajax Playground. If you view source on the page you can see another example of a customized CFInstall.check implementation which is designed to fit the page.
For more details on the Google Chrome Frame Ajax API, see the documentation and for questions, please visit the discussion group.
September 28th, 2009 | by Google Data | published in Google Merchant
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re launching the Google Merchant Center, which will replace Google Base for those of you submitting Product-type items to Google. If you submit products to Google, Google Merchant Center is now the place to uplo…
September 28th, 2009 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing
By James A. WhittakerWell my book survived a recession haunted publishing house and my own change of employer and is now available in print. The subtitle even changed as the techniques, which guided manual testing at Microsoft, were reapplied by Google…
September 28th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Biz Blog)We announced last week that we now have over 1,000 partners using our content identification and management tools to control how and where their videos are distributed on YouTube. Every major U.S. network broadca…
September 28th, 2009 | by vivek | published in Google Merchant
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re launching the Google Merchant Center, which will replace Google Base for those of you submitting Product-type items to Google. If you submit products to Google, Google Merchant Center is now the place to uplo…
September 28th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
We talked trash about giving ourselves two months to get more fans on Facebook than some well-known celebs, and though we’re now totaling 3.65 million fans and have gained nearly 600K since embarking upon this journey, we simply could not catch up to A…
September 28th, 2009 | by Jean-Baptiste Queru, Android Open-Source Project | published in Google Android
The Android 1.6 SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Doing this enables Android to interact with your application more efficiently and thus has the potential to make your application and the overall sys…
September 28th, 2009 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Conversions
Trying to think all of the possible keyword variations that your potential customers could be using to find your site can sometimes be an inexact science. But did you know that you can leverage the power of search to discover these missed keyword oppor…
September 28th, 2009 | by Yani | published in Google Merchant
Google Base is undergoing maintenance and will be unavailable for the next few hours. During this time you will not be able to access your account, and some items may be temporarily disapproved. We apologize for the inconvenience and will post again wh…
September 28th, 2009 | by Yani | published in Google Merchant
Google Base is undergoing maintenance and will be unavailable for the next few hours. During this time you will not be able to access your account, and some items may be temporarily disapproved. We apologize for the inconvenience and will post again wh…
September 27th, 2009 | by Eric (Google) | published in Google Code
About a month ago, we launched v3.0 of the Documents List Data API and promised more features were on the way. Well today, we’re releasing two experimental features in the API: OCR and Document Translation. The first, Optical Character Recognition (O…
September 25th, 2009 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Lately we’ve been busy bees in Mountain View, as you can see from the recent release of Android 1.6 to the open-source tree, not to mention some devices we’re working on with partners that we think you’ll really like. Of course, the community isn’t sit…
September 25th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Have opinions about Blogger? If so, we’d like to meet you. We are looking for participants willing to document their blogging practices over a few weeks and answer some interview questions. This will help us better understand your needs and keep improv…
September 25th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
As always, great job figuring out the answers to all the questions. I hope you had fun deciphering the clues. Here are the answers in case any stumped you. For even more fun exploring the new imagery, here is a KML outlining all the areas receiving new…
September 25th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselThis afternoon AT&T filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission, alleging that Google Voice is preventing its users from making outbound calls to certain phone numbers with …