Talk about late to the party.
In 2005 I was involved in a project using the Google front end API to power a portal site (talk to me off list for gory details).
Long story short: the Google code was such a disaster at the time that I never looked at my own Google homepage again for ages.
Until today at work.
We were talking about various approaches to handling screen real estate and the iGoogle interface came up in the discussion. I figured I knew all there was to know, but took a quick peek under the hood later to notice it being powered by the YUI grids and some other yahoo goodness.
So then in preparation for this post, I did a quick search only to find out this happened in 2007 (!) and got some nice write ups on various Dev blogs.
So not that I’m championing one solution over another, but just great to see one company using examples and work offered by another one. Even if one is big bad Google (I’m pretty sympathetic to both).
So I was going to wax on about this and that, but obviously I’m pretty slow on the uptake here. I’ll try to dig around come up with some points of discussion, but found an interesting thread on Zach Leatherman’s blog covering the issue along with another tangent in the whole story.
So if this is old news to you, sorry for wasting the bandwidth, but maybe there’s some thing of value in here regardless (or irregardless)
Cheers
