mashups

Catching errors or exceptions

I built a mashup of google maps and weather.com and everytime one of these server is not responding my application hangs up too.What do you think I can do to prevent or minimize hanging up of my web apps?Hanging up like you can't navigate away from that page.... I got this code on my app code to access the weather service; Public Clas...

can we do server-side "mashups" that edit html pages served through a proxy?

suppose that we have a complex web app that we don't want to modify directly (probably because it is too long to figure out, but also possibly because we don't even have the source for it). Instead, we want to add a few extra features to how some of its pages get displayed by directly manipulating the html pages that it generates. I thin...

Yahoo maps not displaying in IE 8

Anybody know whats going on? I think this isn't just a problem for my mash. Yahoo maps india doesn't work either: http://in.maps.yahoo.com/ ...

google mashup with state's county map

I wanted to create smth similar to this one Kansas county map where user would be able to click on the county (or even better cities of his/her interest...) and get some info. 1) How would that be possible using google mashups? 2) Is it possible in google mashup to display only one state, for example Kansas only? ...

How different is mashup from screenscraping and consuming webservices

From what I understand, Mashup is aggregating data from separate sources and providing a single view. How different is mashup when compared to screenscraping or using webservices to get data from external sources? ...

Real time web mashup

Apart from the legal issues.. I'd like to create a website that is the exact copy of another website (I do not own but I know will let me do this) where I change a few things, mainly swap images and hide some divs.. So my "website".. how should I build it? I thought something like an Iframe and javascript but I have no idea if this mak...

javascript draw rectangle on google mashups

Hi, I wanted to draw a rectangle as follows: http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-86247.html but only once every time. For example, if I draw rectangle second time I am drawing a new one the previous immediately should disappear. on google mashups http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/examples/map-s...

Creating mashup application

I'm going to create a mashup web-application and I guess some mashup sources won't be glad I use their data (although links to sources will be provided). What are the general formal/informal rules of such applications creating? ...

javascript + google mashups, remove drawn objects

hi, here is an example of drawing polygons on google mashups. Can anyone show how to do the following: 1) Only let user only draw one object. 2) If user has drawn the object, and then presses again on some other object button then the previous object on google mashup is deleted. So that there is only one object always on google mashup.....

Is there an official API for Google calculator?

Is there an officially sanctioned API for google calculator? ...

Creating EMML markup from HTML

I'm building a Mashup application which will generate output in EMML. The application is JavaScript based having an interface like Yahoo Pipes. Once the Mashup is designed in the editor, it needs to convert the same HTML markup to correct EMML markup. I need to know if there is any Javascript framework or plugin available which convert...

How do I access BookCrossing data when they don't have an API?

BookCrossing doesn't have an API right now (it seems in the roadmap that it's planned, but with no expected date of arrival). Any ideas on how to quickly get the current location of a specific book? ...