Comments on: Google Calendar: Heavy on Ajax

By: jeremy schoemaker

jeremy schoemaker — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:11:40 +0000

I love google calandar and I hope they come out with a api so I can make something for my site… that would be cool

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:01:31 +0000

The automatic analysis of gmails seems to be slowly rolling out. I didn’t immediately notice the functionality, but I’ve got it now, and it works pretty well. Doesn’t always detect all the dates, probably because more than one date appears in the email. I guess the logic is if there’s any ambiguity it’s better to leave it for the user to fill in, which is pretty easy.

Can’t agree more with the comments above… html publishing would be a massive advantage, and without it I’m struggling with RSS feedreaders trying to hack the calendar onto my pages…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:35:43 +0000

I’ve just spent the last two days trying to find a way to publish gmail (or any other quality calandar tool) calandars to a website. I don’t want to keep coding HTML, outlook’s HTML export is the ugliest thing that I’ve ever seen, and I haven’t found a publishing site that allows me to confugure the published HTML in the way that I want. I totally agree with John (above) that google calandar is useless unless for organizations because the only people that can see the shared calandar are other gmail users. It would be an excellent tool if it could be published to everyone as an HTML file hosted by google – may I hope dynamically updated.

My beef with all other calendar publishing sites is that you can’t customize the text size so that it shows the ENTIRE calendar entry title and I can’t have ads on the organization’s page.

FRUSTRATING !!!!!!!

By: Kirk LeCompte

Kirk LeCompte — Sat, 13 May 2006 21:35:12 +0000

Google calendar summary: big yawn. Nothing new here. I will admit I am excited that it’s free, but its only of use to individuals. If it you could view a google calendar from within a web site, now that would be exciting. Then clubs, nonprofits, associations, etc. could publish a worthy list of events that individuals would want to subscribe too. Then the RSS could be used on other places on the same site in order to show the calendar in multiple formats. Yes, Google has integrated all the right technology, but until they release publishing, it will remain a big yawn.

By: John Westra

John Westra — Fri, 05 May 2006 17:13:44 +0000

The full value of web-based calendars for the SMB community will only be realized when they have an easy way to publish (not share) them to a web site. Almost every club, church, team, local government unit or other similar organization could bennefit from this.

Google just beat out Yahoo in a CNet calendar shootout. If Yahoo was smart, they would make provide calendar publishing as the “killer” next feature for their offering. Microsoft has to be looking at this whole area very closely. I would bet that a significant amount of their recently announced R&D budget will be spent making their SharePoint and web collaboration services THE product to beat. It won’t be BETA either!

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By: biscuitlad

biscuitlad — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:27:26 +0000

Mmmmm. The gmail integration seems to suck. The add event does *not* automatically pick up the info in an email, it just shows the current time/day. Bit crap, when compared to the Quick Add feature of the calendar. Why haven’t they done this? There isn’t even the option to use quick add as a link from gmail – why not?

By: bedingue

bedingue — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:25:28 +0000

If you want to easily publish an ical to html, checkout EventSniper

By: Darren Scott

Darren Scott — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:41:42 +0000

Thanks for the info, but the issue I was wondering about was publishing Google Calendar to HTML.
So hereâ€™s the scenario – I want to publish a calendar on my website; my visitorâ€™s can 1) click on a link to download an ical file (must have a supporting application); 2) click on an xml feed link (rediculous) or 3) click on a link asking them to sign up to Google Calendar.
Is there an option 4?

By: Andrew Turner

Andrew Turner — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:56:31 +0000

Here's how to publish ical to google calendar.

By: Darren Scott

Darren Scott — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:54:25 +0000

QUOTE:- “Sharing – Calendars can be shared with others, and you can subscribe to othersâ€™ shared calendars. Read/write permissions can be granted on a per user basis. Calendars can be published via a web page or via RSS, so readers do not need to be on the Google Calendar platform.”

The only publishing methods I could find were RSS and ICAL. Are you sure that publishing via a web page is available? If web page publishing is indeed NOT available, then Google Calendar would be absolutely useless for anyone wanting to post a calendar on a website.

By: dkappe

dkappe — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:35:04 +0000

Unlike the new Ajax Yahoo mail, which seems to have lots of big requests flying around, the Google Calendar seems to be true to the Ajax principle of many small requests, asside from that honking 300k+ javascript file that makes it tick.

By: Aditya Naik

Aditya Naik — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:46:35 +0000

I’m waiting for the API to be released.. i can just thing of its immense potential!

By: aubrey island

aubrey island — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:18:04 +0000

My friend was the one, last night, that sent me the link. After logging in, I immediatly viewed the source. CL2 is Ajax Heavy. Sorting through the javascript-made-by-javascript xxxxxxxxxxxxdoozercompiled.js was real fun. Oh!- Is that prototype: “…Function.prototype.bind=function(a){if(typeof this!…”

I’m excited, can’t wait to start using it. A Personalized Page Module would be nice…

Google, itself, is Beta. And change is good!

By: Sz

Sz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:02:17 +0000

Click on “Manage Calendars”, then on the calendar you want. The “private address” bit has links to the ics file and rss feed.

By: Steve Rock

Steve Rock — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:30:53 +0000

Where’s the export? I hate all these apps with vendor lockin. Don’t want all my data trapped by google.

By: Stian

Stian — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:11:34 +0000

After reading all this my expectations are skyhigh, and then I can’t sign in to the darn thing. When signing in I’m taken to my Goggle Accounts page and no further. Anyone else having the same problem?

By: Justin Laing

Justin Laing — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:47:51 +0000

Could you ajaxians add the AJAX Experience as a public calendar in this? That would be awesome.

By: Jc

Jc — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:47:49 +0000

Sad, all those web 2.0 companies making elaborate ajax calendar apps (trumba, 30boxes, like 20 others). And google comes along with one that works adequate (but not great). But its light, fast, and easy to get into. I’ve moved my 30boxes calendar over and probably wont bother with that site anymore unless they come along with some really amazing new feature.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:41:58 +0000

@my own comment
I meant to say Google Calendar NOT gmail.