We would need to embed mathematical formulas through AsciiMathML into Google Sites pages (internal wiki for a research team). I am stuck with the limitation of Google Sites.
Any idea how to do that?
(ps: I have finally found a poorly practical work-around, but better ideas would still be appreciated)
I used to use texify.com, but they're no longer available. Now I use Google Infographics Mathematical Formulas, which has more features and (IMO) is more likely to continue being available in the future.
I had the same problem, but found texify: http://www.texify.com/ as a complete solution. Texify is an online tex editor rendering gifs, and not AsciiMathML, but I found it quick to get the hang of. Just add the html code generated into your source in Google Sites, or insert picture from the GUI.
I don't know how if this is an acceptable solution for you, but you can upload your own HTML (or any other type for that matter) files on Google Pages. So the proposes solution would be: write manually the HTML pages with the necessary JS tags and upload them to Google Pages.
I don't think you can use manually edited HTML for this purpose. Google-sites strips off all "embed" statements in HTML. One solution is to build a google gadget with your AsciiMathML and then insert the gadget into the site. A smart solution would be to search for existing google gadget that servers your purpose ;-) Good luck!
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I am just wondering if Google or other search engines execute JavaScript on your web page. For example, if you set the title tag using JavaScript, does the Google search engine see that?
There have been some experiments performed for SEO purposes which indicate that at least the big players (Google, for example) can and do follow some simple JavaScript. They avoid sneaky redirects and such, but some basic content manipulation does seem to get through. (I don't have a link handy for Google themselves confirming or denying this, it's just various posts I've come across when dealing with this before.)
However, this is generally considered unreliable. If SEO is being done for any important purpose, don't rely on the spiders indexing much dynamic content.
There's actually a very good (in my opinion, anyway) answer here to a very similar question. What I like about that answer is how it breaks down the steps for generating good, indexable, and best of all maintainable web pages with concerns properly separated. Adhering as much as possible to this process generally results in good SEO, good accessibility, and good design skills in general.
Yes, Google executes Javascript. How much is a moving target.
Google executed some Javascript as early as 2011: http://searchengineland.com/google-can-now-execute-ajax-javascript-for-indexing-99518
This article from 2012 documents some experiments on what Javascript Google did and did not run at the time: http://moz.com/ugc/can-google-really-access-content-in-javascript-really
In May 2014, Google said publicly that they execute Javascript: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understanding-web-pages-better.html Although that post says that Google has been getting better, there are no publicly available details on what Javascript Google does and does not execute -- but presumably they are at least as good at it as they were in 2012.
I'm pretty sure they dont. However, you can see for yourself: google have a tool which will show you your page as it sees it as http://www.google.com/webmasters/
if the text is in the onpage javascript, google will see the text. but it will not be seen as the text of the title element.
but hey, this is quite easy to test. just do it. wait two days. if you then google your site with site:.... look whats in the headline. if it's in there then the answer is yes: google sees it, if not: no google doesn't. it's easily testable.
(p.s.: my money is on: no)
We need to remember that JavaScript is client-side language, and always start executing from client-side. If all of titles or contents are via javascript then it'll be output from client-side, and I doubt it'll show up on Google search (meanwhile if outputted on .html, then yes).
If I am correct as of latest, meta tags are "fuel for search-engine", and it have ties to SEO, where it is common robots to be scripted to crawl on your site.
Hey so currently working on my first personal project so bear with the questions!
Currently trying to create a Javascript program that will parse info from google forms to produce slides displaying the info. So far from my research the best way I've found to facilitate this process is googles app script editor. However, I was wondering if I can run this code by requesting it from a different javascript (or maybe even java) program that I will write code on webstorm. If I cant do this what is the best way to utilize the google apps script editor?
Thanks!
Google Apps Script is just javascript with extra built-in APIs (like SpreadsheetApp, FormApp, etc.).
It also has a UrlFetchApp API.
So you can run code like this:
// The code below logs the HTML code of the Google home page.
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.google.com/");
Logger.log(response.getContentText());
As such, if you want to provide JavaScript from elsewhere, you could fetch it and then eval it on the Google Apps Script side. (but we all know how tricky eval can get)
One other option is to have your own server side written using Google App Engine (or any other framework) and use Google's OAuth and authorize your app to fetch data from the Forms form
Slides and Google Apps Script
You might like to take a look at the addon "Slides Merge" by Bruce McPherson. I've never used it but it sounds like it might work for you. Here's what it's looks like in the addon store:
Getting information from Google Forms is a snap with google apps script since your can link the form right up to a spreadsheet. The Google Apps Script documentation is really quite good these days. Here's the documentation link. Google Apps Script is loosely based on Javascript 1.6. If your already a programmer my guess is that you'll have few problems learning to use it. In my experience the most difficult thing was dealing with the arrays of arrays produced by the getValues() method of ranges in google apps script and I made a short video that might be of some help to you.
I also have a script that I wrote in Google Apps Script that produces a sheet show that is a slide show inside of a spreadsheet.
I've found that using the Script Editor is pretty easy. There's some documentation in the support section of the documentation. It can be a bit buggy at times but overall I think it's a pretty good tool.
I am not a web programming expert but I would like to create a Firefox extension that rewrites pages' html and javascript code. This is a personal project so I can take my time and learn things as I go.
I haven't been able to locate a tutorial or existing extension that does both tasks.
Would you be able to point me in the right direction?
Thanks you so much!
-CxT
You're trying to accomplish two different things. My advice is to learn to do both independently. For extensions, these are great tutorials:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/building_an_extension
http://www.rietta.com/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html
For "rewriting" a pages html, css, js:
http://ejohn.org/blog/hacking-digg-with-firebug-and-jquery/
Anything you don't understand in any of the tutorials, either google or ask here.
Enjoy!
I'm trying to create a simple google gadget and am encountering trouble right out the door. I've read the getting started guide top to bottom and feel like i'm still missing something.
Starting with the Hello World gadget they have provided, how do I begin editing and testing? I'm using the Google Gadget Editor with the preview tab. This works for simple html, but any javascript (such as an "alert") I embed doesn't work.
I can publish the gadget and add it to iGoogle. When I do this, my embeded javascript works. However there seems to be a good bit of caching and latency going on behind the scenes. Right now this process of editing, uploading, publishing, debugging is quite painful. Am I missing something obvious here? What is the "correct" way to develop and test a gadget? Is there a program that can run gadget code on my machine without having to go online?
Ah, the joys of editing a Google Gadget.
From my experience the Google Gadget editor is VERY buggy. So that may be the Javascript issue you are having, try switching browsers.
Also, to disable caching:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=www.google.com/ig/modules/developer.xml
The answer appears to be "No" as far as I can tell. I have also suffered the painful latency you mention: one code/debug cycle can easily take 10 minutes of waiting for the gadget to update to my latest code.
I hope someone marks me down and provides a "Yes" answer.
Try appending a query string to your gadget URL and then add it to your gmail or iGoogle page. Use a different query parameter every time you make changes to your gadget. Like for example:
www.mycompany.com/gadgets/main.xml?q=1234
Google refreshes the cache every hour or so. So, adding a query string will force it to refresh the gadget immediately.
I don't mean for the title to be derogatory, but this is a rather frustrating problem, and I'm looking for a good workaround, given a language barrier involved.
I have a site set up for a plugin I wrote, and, rather than use the site's resources to write their own code, I've had people simply rip the code from the samples on the site. Normally, this wouldn't be any issue at all, but they are also taking my Google Analytics instantiation, so my Analytics data is getting very skewed by incorporating visitation data from their websites.
I've been able to contact the English-speaking site owners with little issue. The problem lies in the Japanese language sites that are yanking the code. I have no idea how to ask them to take down the analytics portion.
Long-term, I'm providing a package that streamlines the learning-to-use process, but in the meantime, what can I do about this language barrier? Is there a way around this problem that I haven't thought of?
You could modify the javascript on your pages to only load Analytics if the domain matches your own.
Two ideas:
Don't show your actual GA code on your site. Replace it with some filler code that makes it obvious it's meant to be replaced. Since I'm not sure what your plugin is about I'm not sure how practical this is, but I think there must be a way.
Use Google Translate to give foreign users the option to see your page translated into their own language. Google even offers a tool to add a "Choose your language" drop-down to any page. (And of course make sure the most important parts of your site are in plain, easily-translated English.)
Good luck!
Also, building on Greg's solution, if the domain doesn't match your own, you could alert a message telling the implementer to remove the code, a la what Crockford did with his JSON parser.
I would contact them in English (using plain language), and at the bottom I would add a version of the same text run through Google Translate - with an apology that it was generated by Google Translate and may not be accurate.