[thelist] Google Home Page

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 09:48:32 CDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:40 PM, j s <jslist at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>  Google has a new front page - with a customizable front page.  You can move the boxes around.  How is this done?  Flash?

I think you mean iGoogle http://www.google.co.uk/ig which is similar
to MY! Yahoo http://my.yahoo.com

Its done with Javascript, even the new bbc homepage lets you move the
'boxes' around http://www.bbc.co.uk

There are lots of JS libraries that will help you achieve this

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/dragdrop/

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/DragAndDrop

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Draggables

ben
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