Google calendar and Ajax

Posted At : April 13, 2006 9:40 AM
Related Categories: Google

Google just opened their calendar application to public beta. I have been playing around with it this morning, and once again Google is making good use of Ajax on this site.

There is a link to it here at Google's beta site.

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John Dowdell's Gravatar Hi David -- Are there any JavaScript interactions there that you particularly like?
# Posted By John Dowdell | 4/13/06 10:48 AM
David Fekke's Gravatar John,

I really like the mouse drag select feature. I also like that can drap appointments to any place in the calendar.

I am not sure how this works, but Google is using something that can push information to the browser, other than standard Ajax. It is like an event listener exists on the browser, and they push changes down to the client. Very similar to client messaging that can be performed in Flex 2.0.
# Posted By David Fekke | 4/13/06 11:47 AM
Rob Gonda's Gravatar Interesting, I don't think I've ever heard the term Standard Ajax before, given than it is not a technology, not patented, and there are not real definitions other than using JS and being asynchronous; any hoo, but I hear what you're saying.
Check out the following links:

Comet Technology, long lived http requests:
http://www.robgonda.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/3/4/Co...

XML Sockets and Ajax used together:
http://www.robgonda.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/3/20/B...


Best,

~Rob
# Posted By Rob Gonda | 4/15/06 9:53 AM
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