I'm investigating the possibility of re-using Google Apps/Docs in a local hybrid desktop/browser application.
I've been going through the Google documentation on manipulating docs, eg. the Spreadsheet. I can't seem to find any info on actually hosting the UI. Is this possible, or does it require some form of permission from Google?
You want to basically embed an browser control in your application pointed at the URL of a Google Apps doc? You could use the Google Document List API to retrieve the documents for a user, then use the URLs of those documents in your embedded browser control.
You don't need Google's permission to do that; you're writing a browser with some extra smarts built in.
What do you mean by "hosting the UI?" These apps are HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Are you thinking about embedding them in AIR or Titanium, or in some kind of web control in another app?
i briefly looked into doing this, and figured if i really wanted to i could just load the gdocs page content dynamically, and use javascript to strip away the superflous elements like header and footer. but instead i'll probably just use an OS alternate because they have come a long way and I want rich hooks.
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I'm currently trying to place the docusign console onto my website. My current method is using an iFrame but I'm wondering if that is secure and the optimal way of doing it. I was also wondering if the docusignAPI has a solution to that implemented already because I couldn't find one after playing around on the website with various code sources.
Preferably, users would be able to go to some part of the website, view the contract or document they need to sign on the website without having the leave the website. This includes viewing the document on the website as well such as using an iFrame allows.
Using iframes to host DocuSign embedded signing is not a good idea for a few reasons.
Typically to have a good experience it is recommended to use a large window.
Security Concerns. The users of your app wouldn't be able to see the DocuSign URL as well as the green check to know they're using a secure website which should make them feel more confident about using your integration.
I was wondering if there are modules, or code snippets to create a program that connects to the Microsoft store, in the background, and download an app(without pyAutoGUI). Thanks in advance.
There are no Official API's for accessing Microsoft store, A Possible solution is to use requests library or other equivalent to create a bot that can access various fields available on the website and navigate through, if you always want a certain(Same) application to be downloaded may be you can go directly to that links page and use get request for the download button as submit, this should work in theory, but again this will also keep breaking in short durations as Microsoft keeps making changes to it's website.
P.S. You might want to fool the website by adding headers to your request.
I want to understand why client side rendering makes it bad for SEO? Are there any articles about this? Isn't the data rendering already from the server and it's just a matter of making it look like anything we want in JavaScript, how will this affect SEO?
Thank you.
The simple answer is that when you render the site with JavaScript you require JavaScript to see the page, right? Well, Google bots don't run JavaScript so in the best case they'll just see plain text.
Nothing wrong with plain text though. The most important thing is that the same info is on the page even without JavaScript.
Can you be more specific on how you planning to implement client side rendering?
Why would you like to use SEO for a SharePoint site?
SharePoint has already a very good native search engine.
Please take in count that using sharepoint as a public website is no longer recommended, furthermore Microsoft and any SP professional will discourage you from using it in that way. Microsoft has already dropped the public website feature from SharePoint Online (Office 365), and as you may know the current Microsoft strategy is “Cloud first, Mobile first” so you can expect that in the middle term most of the ways and patterns will be equivalent in SP Online and SP on-premise. So I'm not saying that you can't do this with a SharePoint server exposed to internet, however you shouldn't continue doing it, considering that you can use web services to call/get sharepoint content from any other web platform in case you need to publish some sharepoint content in a public website.
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3027254/en-us
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sharepoint-public-website-platform-any-more-marwan-tarek
I've been using Scribd secure and their javascript/PHP api for few years. I've made a custom upload page where I upload books and automatically disable printing/downloading/copying, because this is what my client wants. Those books are then embedded into a page on my site.
I was never really satisfied with Scribd API and their 'iPaper secure' because it is not really secure but I wasn't able to find better solution for displaying documents to registered members while restricting save/copy/print. And Scribd developer support was very bad. But I lived with that.
Unfortunately, I just noticed that printing is no longer disabled on my 'secured' documents, because Scribd removed this option almost 3 years ago, without my knowledge :)
Please, does anybody know of any way for me to host books 'securely'?
Thanx in advance!
There are several PDF to html converters which would allow you to put the content on your site (with full control) or you could use something like PDF.js to display files.
Is it possible to create a custom Google Lab project? Or do Google Engineers have to create them? I'd like to integrate Gmail with another web application on a company web server.
If that is not possible, is there a way to import/export google mail in some format (ie: XML, HTML, etc..) for a specific gmail user or group of gmail users?
No.
You're looking for the IMAP protocol, which allows you to interact with Gmail messages.
No, it's not possible. Google Labs projects are Google's own experiments, not something you can add to yourself.
As Nadir Muzaffar said, maybe Gmail's API is what you're looking for: https://developers.google.com/gmail/
I'd like to add that you may create a browser extension.
You may start with experimenting with Developer toolbar (F12) and then pack your javascript to an extension.
If you use I.E. Chrome, see I.E. https://robots.thoughtbot.com/how-to-make-a-chrome-extension or try to look at your current extensions in order to understand how it's working ( ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/ or ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/ )
Note that if GMail changes, your extension may not work anymore.