MyGoogleCal2 no longer works 100% in Internet Explorer. A runtime error occurs when navigating month-to-month or when switching to Agenda mode. The workaround is to simply hide the navigation interface. Now, I don’t know if this bug was introduced when Google updated the code last month, or if it’s always been there and I just never noticed. In any case, the runtime error occurs when //"+a.host+"/calendar is replaced by //www.google.com/calendar. Given the poor debugging available in IE, I didn’t get very far with figuring out why IE breaks. I suspect that when IE makes an XmlHttpRequest, it’s double checking that the request URL matches up with the server host, or something to that effect. Since Google obfuscates the Javascript code, it’s just way too hard to try and fix it. Instead, I’ve opted to create a new version of MyGoogleCal that uses the original technique for IE but uses the technique from MyGoogleCal2 for all other browsers.
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UPDATE: MyGoogleCal now has a third version.
The long awaited new version of MyGoogleCal is here. It supports the new AJAX-enabled Javascript method Google switched to last month. As a bonus, the new version has native support for multiple calendars each with their own colors! Other changes to the code include officially switching from fopen to curl to retrieve the data. Furthermore, the code replaces much less HTML since it’s encapsulated in Javascript. Without further ado…
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My how-to for restyling Google Calendar is by far this blog’s most popular post so far. Right from the start, people had requested that I adjust the code to accommodate Google Calendar’s mini-mode. It certainly was possible using the technique I used, but it did break the agenda which was flaky to begin with given the fact the feature was experimental. Every once in a while, I’d check on the stability of mini-mode to determine if it was ripe for some hacking. Then one day the mode simply didn’t work anymore. It was weird, but after further research I found out why. Mini-mode was superseded by the Google Calendar Gadget. The configuration form does provide some customization of the style, but it is certainly limited. So just like before, I poked and prodded the code until I was able to find the means to restyle the gadget.
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The UI on a project of mine had to be resizable. The UI included a script.aculo.us slider which unfortunately did not have a resize method nor was it smart enough to update itself should the underlying element be resized. So I created the following extension:
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