Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Google Code Revamps with jQuery
Category: Google, JavaScript
, jQuery
, Showcase
The site uses jQuery for a lot of its work, and also eats a lot of dogfood. The video below goes through some of the high lights, but DeWitt Clinton said it well:
One of the most exciting things about the redesign is that everything you see here was built using technology and APIs that are available to everyone. The pages we’re serving don’t rely on any secret back-end tricks; the site is built on plain HTML, JavaScript and CSS, each using our public APIs. In fact, all of the techniques used on Google Code can be duplicated on your own site.
For example, the search results pages use a combination of the AJAX Search API and Custom Search Engines. The homepage gadgets use the AJAX Feed API and Google Reader feeds. The videos are powered by the YouTube API, the blogs by the Blogger API, the events powered by the Google Calendar API, the metrics by Google Analytics, the forums by Google Groups, etc., etc..
Stay tuned — over the upcoming weeks we’ll offer detailed articles and tutorials about how we built the various parts of Google Code using open technologies.
This is just the beginning of a slew of updates that we are making to the site. I can’t wait to roll out some of the items that really match our vision of what a developer community can really be!
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oh my god.. Google using jQuery!
Hmm..doesn’t look too fancy to me.
congratulations, john! you made it into the “google society” ;)
It’s delicious! But.. can you ask the kind folks in charge of the code to _stop_ disabling the ALT-Back/Forward. Not being able to navigate back and forth with the keyboard on the new site highly annoying.
jQuery in the title, jQuery prominently in the article… a lot of other project links visible… no jQuery link?
Was it just me or did it sound like he said it uses a CFC to sort things out? If so, sounds like at least some part of Google is running ColdFusion.
Klaudia, not all ajax/javascript stuff is “bells, whistles and eye-candy” – can be very functional behind the scenes and fairly transparent to the user that it’s even going on.
Mh, things like the search seem to be a bit buggy, mouse navigation is slow, keyboard sometimes blocked … strange behaviours. But hey, its freshly revamped :-)
OMG, I can’t believe it. Grats, John.
for those of you can’t find the jQuery link, just go to Google Code’s page and view source. You’ll see the magical “jquery.js” =D
YAY! Go jQuery! I LOVE IT!
And I still can’t believe they use it!
google are a carzy company. i cant believe them somtimes, they act they own the internet