Recently, the guys over at Ext JS released ext-core under an MIT license, which was a big win for open source! Today, they released a stable (non-beta) version of this library and we are proud to be part of that announcement by hosting the new version…
Recently, the guys over at Ext JS released ext-core under an MIT license, which was a big win for open source! Today, they released a stable (non-beta) version of this library and we are proud to be part of that announcement by hosting the new version…
We started nextstop.com with the idea that we could make it significantly easier and more fun to discover new and interesting things to do anywhere in the world, based on recommendations from people who know a place well. Whether it was a neat museum,…
We have updated versions of jQuery and YUI on our CDN. jQuery is now at version 1.3.2 which will be what version 1 and 1.3 aliases point to.YUI’s new version, 2.7.0, includes a new stylesheet utility to do dynamic CSS without looping through DOM nodes…
I recently launched a new product to help developers learn our APIs. It’s an open source framework for showing Javascript code samples. The tool allows users to click through samples so that they can edit code and see their changes live. In order to…
We’ve been hosting most of the big powerhouse Javascript libraries and so far it’s been a huge success. However, without YUI!, our collection has been incomplete. Well, I’m not saying that now we’re complete and won’t add more libraries, just that we…
If you’re a Flash nut then you probably know about the SWFObject Javascript library. I’m not, so I didn’t. However, since I promised myself I would play with Flex soon I am very happy that a "Flasher" suggested that we add it to our AJAX Li…
So, the other day, I was asked by the AJAX APIs dev team if I’d like to write a guest blog post, but they didn’t tell me what to write about. I thought about telling you how the AJAX APIs revolutionized how I think about life, design websites, and slic…
MooTools v1.2.1 recently got released and we have received the thumbs up from the maintainers to host it, so the bits have been flipped and the pipes are ready to MOOve it over to you guys.But wait!! Before you get started with 1.2.1, please note that…
What’s better than making a drag/drop effect in Javascript that’s compatible in all browsers? Not making a drag/drop effect in Javascript that’s compatible in all browsers. Save your ninja-code for another day and use the JQuery UI plugin that is no…
Since the launch we’ve seen significant adoption for the AJAX Libraries API. Many developers have let us know that they would love to use our API on their secure sites using HTTPS (such as e-commerce), in fact it is the #1 request on our issue tracker….
I wrote a non-Javascript version of Google Maps which is designed to show how easy it is to write an application on App Engine that makes use of two new APIs from Google: The Static Maps API and the Local Search API’s REST interface. It doesn’t have f…
Posted by Ben Lisbakken, Gears TeamUsing a JavaScript API to cache web pages offline, interact with a client side database and introduce threading into your application isn’t immediately intuitive because it’s such a foreign concept for a web API. I r…
Posted by Ben Lisbakken, Gears TeamUsing a JavaScript API to cache web pages offline, interact with a client side database and introduce threading into your application isn’t immediately intuitive because it’s such a foreign concept for a web API. I r…
Written by Ben Lisbakken, Google Developer ProgramsIf you’ve got JavaScript skills and you’d like to implement such things as Google Gadgets or Maps on your site, bring your laptops and come hang out with us in Mountain View.This Friday, my team (Googl…