Hi, For the navigation menu I would like to suggest something like that, with show/hidden button as well.
http://www.hostdnnblog.com/Searchapi/Examples/Demo/Soon/tabid/1483/language/en-US/Default.aspx On Oct 21, 9:23 pm, "Ben Lisbakken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
