Important Difference Between List-Based and Cell-Based Feeds With The Google Spreadsheets API
Posted on Wednesday, 14 February, 2007
(See below for update. Turns out I should've RTFM *blush*.)
Yesterday night, I hacked together a little script that notifies some of my friends via email when a given sort of changes have been made to a Google Spreadsheet that we are working on. It was a nice opportunity to familiarize with the new API – it may still lack some advanced features, but it's simple, logical and easy to use.
However, I was bitten by one peculiarity that is not documented too clearly: It appears that the list-based feeds only cover the the rows above the first empty row regardless whether more data may be present after the gap. The cell-based feeds, on the other hand, will report all non-blank cells, regardless of blank rows.
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Posted on Monday, 12 February, 2007
This morning started with a genuine “Wow” moment: On Read/Write Web, I learnt that Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.0 will allow for offline access to web applications (as reported by Rod Drury). Obviously, some re-engineering will be required to enable a web app for offline functionality, and the typical application might not expose its full functionality in offline mode.
But, hey, this is still revolutionary: Imagine you want to keep working on some documents in Google Docs when on an air plane: currently you have to remember to download them before and upload them again afterwards. Even worse, if others work on them concurrently, you might unwillingly undo their changes. Imagine you could just open Google Docs in your browser while offline without all the hassle and error-proneness of “manual synchronization”.
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