February 20th, 2009 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
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…
February 3rd, 2009 | by Adam Feldman | published in Google Ajax API
Today we are launching a new extension to the AJAX Search API, a Google News-based element. This element embeds a news slideshow on your site, letting your users see headlines and previews from Google News based on queries that you’ve selected. Here i…
January 22nd, 2009 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
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…
November 21st, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
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…
November 13th, 2008 | by Adam Feldman | published in Google Ajax API
We’re pleased to announce the addition of local search for China. For users already using the AJAX Search API for local search, you should now be able to search for businesses in China without having to make any changes. Try typing “hotels in Beijing…
November 10th, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
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…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
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…
October 29th, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
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…
October 7th, 2008 | by Adam Feldman | published in Google Ajax API
We are pleased to announce two enhancements to our AJAX Language API.Thanks to the great efforts of the Google Translate team, the API is now able to support 11 additional languages for translation:Catalan (ca)Filipino (tl)Hebrew (iw)Indonesian (id)Lat…
September 15th, 2008 | by Adam Feldman | published in Google Ajax API
As the AJAX APIs have undergone tremendous growth and adoption, developers have used these APIs in many new and exciting ways. When things move fast, sometimes details get left behind, and our Terms of Service has not been keeping up with the rapid rat…
September 3rd, 2008 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Ajax API
by Gokul Nath Babu and Anupama Dutta, Software EngineersWe’re excited to announce a new addition to the AJAX Language API – the Transliteration API. Transliteration is the process of phonetically converting a word written in one script into another. …
August 25th, 2008 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Have you ever gone to a site, looked at the page and wondered, “how did they do that?” Since we launched our 2008 U.S. Election site I am getting lots of questions about that nifty little “page element” sitting in the center of the page. Everyone wants…
August 21st, 2008 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Have you ever written an app and wanted to do something simple like center a map on your user’s location? Consider a simple little map gadget. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to center that map on your user’s home country, state, or city, instead of jus…
August 12th, 2008 | by Derek Collison, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Back in March we introduced the Google AJAX Language API, which you can use to incorporate translations from Google Translate into your projects. Lots of people have been excited about this API, including some engineers here at Google. Last Friday we r…
August 5th, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
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…