Google Data » Eric (Google) https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:28:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 HTML5 Rocks! https://googledata.org/google-chrome/html5-rocks/ https://googledata.org/google-chrome/html5-rocks/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:07:00 +0000 great resources out there, but most are still very hard to find. As announced on the chromium.org blog, Google is releasing a new developer resource dedicated to all that is HTML5, HTML5Rocks.com.


The site is broken up into four main sections:

Interactive Presentation
The presentation everyone is talking about! An interactive slide deck written entirely in HTML5 which demonstrates many of HTML5’s features. It even includes inline examples you can tinker with.

HTML5 Playground
The best way to learn this stuff is to try it out. The Playground is a sandbox area for editing and experimenting with live samples.

Tutorials
We're launching the site with an initial set of nine tutorials covering a bunch of different areas. We’ll continue to add more over time based on your input.

Resources
We've hand-picked some of our favorite tools, reference material, and sites; all generated by the online community. Do check them out. They’ll come in handy when developing your next web app.

We hope HTML5Rocks will help developers put HTML5 to use in the real world, today. We’d love to hear your thoughts on improving the site! Send us a tweet at @ChromiumDev or post to the Chromium HTML5 group with requests for content.

By Eric Bidelman, Google Chrome Developer Relations
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/html5-rocks/feed/ 0 Import Scans or Go Multilingual https://googledata.org/google-code/import-scans-or-go-multilingual/ https://googledata.org/google-code/import-scans-or-go-multilingual/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:32:00 +0000 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 (OCR), allows your application to create editable Google Documents from high-resolution images containing text (such as faxes or scanned letters). To perform OCR on a .png, .jpg, or .gif upload, add the ocr=true parameter onto your upload request:

POST /feeds/default/private/full?ocr=true HTTP/1.1

OCR will only work well on high-resolution images. The quality of the extracted text isn't perfect yet, but we're busy improving it!

Secondly, we have integrated Google Translate into the API. As a result, you can translate a document during upload. Simply add the targetLanguage and sourceLanguage parameters to your upload request:

POST /feeds/default/private/full/?targetLanguage=de&sourceLanguage=en HTTP/1.1

If sourceLanguage is omitted, we'll try to auto detect the document's language. All languages supported by Google Translate (full list here) are supported in the API.

As always, see the documentation for details. There's also a live demo (source will be available soon) up at googlecodesamples.com.

Posted by Jaron Schaeffer & Eric Bidelman, Google Docs Team
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If you're new to the application, Google Sites is a powerful collaborative content creation tool that can be used to centralize file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it's just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publish sites to the world.

Now, all of your Google Sites content can be accessed using the Google Data protocol. That means porting over an old webpage or backing up an existing site got much easier! In fact, check out our open-source Google Sites import/export tool that does just that.

So what can you do with the Google Sites API? Glad you asked! The API supports most of the functionality found in Google Sites, which includes the ability to:
  • Retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages and content.
  • Upload/download attachments.
  • Review the revision history across a site.
  • Display recent user activity.
For now, the API is being released in labs as we continue to rapidly add and change features. You can get the full scoop in the documentation. There, you'll also find an updated Java library and several code samples to get you started. We'll be updating the other clients soon.

Visit us in our new developer forum if you have questions!

Posted by Eric Bidelman, Google Sites API Team
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