False alarm. Definitely a bug in my code...however I still contend that there ought to be a "startdate" parameter to make the standards a bit clearer.
Thanks again Ray Eli On Feb 11, 1:23 pm, Eli <[email protected]> wrote: > It may be a legitimate bug in my code because I'm working with the > embedded widget dynamically on the server-side. > > On Feb 11, 1:19 pm, Eli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" 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-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
