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March 21, 2006
Google Finance
Google Finance: Uses SWF for charting... this page is their NASDAQ chart. You can drag in the main chart area to load and chart more data, from different dates, without refreshing the page. This drag apparently passes a message to the browser engine so that it does a parallel XmlHttpRequest to fetch news headlines from your new date range. (I say "apparently" because I haven't dug through the various external .JS files to confirm.) Up on the top of the chart is a windowing tool to control the time-duration of the chart below, and the HTML news headlines change in response to this interaction as well. Incorporates the common "mouseover to see numeric values for a given sample" that I first saw in MXNA Reports, and later in Measure Map, recently acquired by Google... different duration control here, though. Blog commentary at Memeorandum varies but seems to compare it unfavorably to the established Yahoo Finance across their total sets of services, with some commentators calling the charting system "ajax widgets". Update: Folks who took the time to check the source markup showed that Flash Player 7 was the minimum audience requirement, so the browser/plugin intercommunication technique was "Flash JavaScript Integration Kit", which went plugin-to-browser via "javascript:" pseudo-URLs, and browser-to-plugin with the invisible DIV/FRAME technique, loading a hidden SWF which communicated to the visible SWF via Flash's localConnect ability.
Posted by John Dowdell at March 21, 2006 06:12 AM
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