At age five most kids can hop, skip and tie their shoes without help. Google Code turns five this week, and while we’re still working on the shoelaces thing, we’ve grown from a simple site for hosting a couple of APIs into a destination for developers to prototype their ideas in a Code Playground, host [...]
Today, we’re beginning a troubleshooting series to help you diagnose and solve common issues with your ads, search boxes, and account functionality. We’re kicking things off with a look at how to correctly implement your ad code and an explanation of why ads may not appear on your pages at times. First, the best way [...]
Today, we are happy to announce the launch of AuthSub for ActionScript, a new component of the well-known AuthSub authentication interface for the Google Data Protocol. This new feature enables Flash and Silverlight applications to access data securely on behalf of a user, without the application ever seeing the user’s private login credentials. To use [...]
Why use your own copy of jQuery, use the one Google is hosting, this gives you great advantages in caching! You can include it this way: <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> // Load jQuery google.load("jquery", "1.2.6"); google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { // Your code goes here. }); </script> Or you can place a direct reference to it: <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js" [...]
Today we’re excited to announce our new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code snippet as an alternative way to track your websites! It provides the following benefits: Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution Enhanced data collection & accuracy Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn’t [...]
Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we’ve built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We’re happy to announce the open sourcing of these tools, and proud [...]