Thanks for the example Ray.  I'm not able to replicate that behavior
quite yet, but it will help me refine my thinking.

On Feb 10, 8:00 pm, Ray Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, this behavior is browser dependent.
> If you go to this url:
>
> http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?dates=20080901%2F20080904&src=ca...
>
> or*http://tinyurl.com/ball3z*
>
> in Firefox (3 - Mac), IE (7), Chrome (1.0 - ancient!), or Opera (10.0 - Mac)
> you will see a calendar for August 31-October 4 with events every day. You
> can navigate to any date and see the events that occur on that day.
>
> If you go to the same url in Safari (3.2.1 - Mac) or WebKit (yesterday's
> build), you see the same base calendar, but there are only events on
> Sepetember 1 - 3 (exact range might depend on your local time zone).
>
> Note that on the original page I referenced, there was reported to be some
> problem with the rendering of the embedded calendar in Safari. That calendar
> now renders, but there are still some problems with Google's support of
> Safari/Webkit (or the underlying JS engines.)
>
> Ray
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Ray Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sorry, I see what you are saying.
> > Let me do some checking.
>
> > Ray
>
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Ray Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> As I said, "You''ll have to change the showNav parameter to 1 if you want
> >> your users to be able to navigate backward and forward."
>
> >> Ray
>
> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Eli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> Thanks Ray.  The date range query parameter works fine for its own
> >>> purpose, but that's not to designate a start date.  You've disabled
> >>> the forward/backward navigation so that you've explicitly limited the
> >>> widget to that range which perfectly exemplifies what I don't want to
> >>> happen.  All I want to do is to make sure that the widget starts on a
> >>> particular date, but without any constraints applied to the events
> >>> that appear in the widget.
>
> >>> Eli
>
> >>> On Feb 10, 5:56 pm, Ray Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> > Try using the dates parameter with your embedded calendar.
> >>> > There is an example here:
>
> >>> > Adding Events to Secondary Google Calendars in
> >>> > Python<
> >>>http://67central.com/bc/2008/09/28/adding-events-to-secondary-google-..
> >>> .>
>
> >>> > Scroll down for the embedded calendar. Its url is:
>
> >>> >http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?showTitle=0&showNav=0&showDate=0.
> >>> ..
>
> >>> > You''ll have to change the showNav parameter to 1 if you want your
> >>> users to
> >>> > be able to navigate backward and forward.
>
> >>> > Ray
>
> >>> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Eli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> > > Googlers,
>
> >>> > > This subject was addressed in a post title: "specify a start date
> >>> when
> >>> > > embedding a calendar in a html page"
>
> >>> > > However, the technique that was suggested which is to use a "dates"
> >>> > > querystring parameter does not appear to be the proper solution to
> >>> > > this inquiry.  The reason is because when you specify a date range
> >>> > > only the events that occur within the range are ever visible to your
> >>> > > user.  Any events that occur around that range are ignored by the
> >>> > > widget.  That is not the desired behavior when trying to designate a
> >>> > > start date.
>
> >>> > > Are there any other solutions?
>
> >>> > > Eli
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