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goatslayer
April 14th, 2008, 09:51 AM
What technology drives the graphics in iGoogle? - I am looking to create something similar whereby you click a widget window, it fades, and allows you to move it around, all the time it is overlayed over the screen, it also shows you where you can move the widget to by bringing up various dotted outlines in different places in the browser window.

Any one have any clues as to what drives the graaphics/effects?
boudino
April 15th, 2008, 02:48 AM
If think it is AJAX, maybe in combination with some kind of flash.
goatslayer
April 15th, 2008, 04:31 AM
Do you think then that maybe it is some sort of javascript object 'overlay'? - which is on screen, which has mouse events such as click where it fades, and becomes movable, which then follows the position of the mouse wherever it moves?

If that makes sense?
goatslayer
May 14th, 2008, 06:50 AM
Any other thoughts here? or does this need moving to a more web based section of the foruum?
PeejAvery
May 14th, 2008, 11:15 AM
To interact purely with the objects shown in the browser, all you need is JavaScript and CSS. If you are not an advanced in JavaScript, I would suggest starting by looking into Script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/) and Prototype JS (http://prototypejs.org/).

If you need to interact with the server at all, such as Gmail does with messages, then in comes AJAX.
PeejAvery
May 14th, 2008, 11:17 AM
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goatslayer
May 21st, 2008, 08:34 AM
Thanks PeejAvery, I found those two links to be very useful. I had a look at similar libraries too, and feel I am getting a better feel for it now. I think I was right in my initial thoughts on how the iGoogle graphics are driven, and have started looking into creating something similar.
Domain-K-
June 3rd, 2008, 04:17 AM
To interact purely with the objects shown in the browser, all you need is JavaScript and CSS. If you are not an advanced in JavaScript, I would suggest starting by looking into Script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/) and Prototype JS (http://prototypejs.org/).

If you need to interact with the server at all, such as Gmail does with messages, then in comes AJAX.

Really helpful links. Thanks.