Jeremy -- Yeah, if I can integrate a moveable text-box and have it look good then that would be a great addition -- let the user choose how the layout to be!
Vision -- All great suggestions! For the difficulty level, I was thinking this would be the basic playground. This would be where users start and they can just plain see the features work and tinker with them. Things will be self-explicit, well documented and thus knowledge of Javascript will not be essential because things will be clear. Then, to address more in depth demos like you mentioned, I will create a Demo gallery for which more advanced demos can be submitted. This will be a place for more advanced features, techniques and ideas to be shown off by none other than You, the community! That way there is a playground for the amateurs and pros alike :) On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Vision Jinx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Ben, > > Great post and if I can help in any way let me know. :-) > > Re: your questions... > > I'd like some input from you guys, though! > > 1) I was thinking an interactive page where you can run all of the > demos without having to click in, and even edit the code inline and > see the changes. > > - I like it! It would be great to be able to click a link for a demo, > see it in action, click edit code and play with the code, yes! much > like the W3Schools one and the Gadget Editor to some degree. > > > 2) And what about the difficulty of the demos? Would it be more > helpful to have very bare-bones basic samples that show very common > uses that users ask or would you want to see mini-sample applications > that actually achieve some goal? > > - Some of each (more focus on the getting started though), I like > apps/demos that actually have a practical application, but there needs > to be the basic "hello world" ones to get people started, but I would > still like to see more advanced ones too (and using them/integration > with other APIs). I would like to see them organized by API category > and possibly have a star/icon to indicate difficulty level. I also > agree with the one post that the code should be well documented > explaining different api concepts. It may be helpful to have a section > of most commonly asked questions ones. > > > 3) And lastly, should there be one page for all of the AJAX API demos > or separate pages for each individual API? > > - As things grow it may need to change a bit, but a 'one stop shop' > for the examples would be great, could be an AJAX type interface, > click the section/category and it returns the samples (and > descriptions) for that section. > > Hope that helps :-) > > Cheers! > Vision Jinx > > On Oct 17, 3:04 pm, "Ben Lisbakken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all -- > > I've been looking through the samples and we have a decent amount. The > only > > problem is that they're spread out and sometimes hard to find. Also, > it's > > kind of a mix-and-match whether the samples are very low-level and easy > to > > understand or whether they take a bit of involved thinking. > > > > I've been toying with the idea of creating a page like the Maps API has > like > > this: > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/examples/index.html > > > > I'd like some input from you guys, though! I was thinking an interactive > > page where you can run all of the demos without having to click in, and > even > > edit the code inline and see the changes. And what about the difficulty > of > > the demos? Would it be more helpful to have very bare-bones basic > samples > > that show very common uses that users ask or would you want to see > > mini-sample applications that actually achieve some goal? > > > > And lastly, should there be one page for all of the AJAX API demos or > > separate pages for each individual API? > > > > Please discuss. > > > > -Ben > > > > p.s. contributers welcome! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
