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Google helps Adobe, but disapoints Yahoo!

posted Friday, 24 March 2006
Check out another Google's beauty : Google Finance. Guess what technology they are using for charting ?
Seems like   Adobe Flex with Charting Components?  Just click on the chart and start dragging the mouse?
No, this is ain't Google maps and ain't JavaScript either. Just right click on the chart and you'll see that it lives in the virtual machine called Adobe Flash Player, which is part of  of Flex.

Our upcoming Flex/Java  book will show you what can you do by combining  these two powerful languages/technologies. 
Now go  to Yahoo! Finance and try to do the same thing with their charts. I know, I know. This body is cold and does not move. People from Yahoo! Finance should  pre-order our book ASAP :)

Jeremy Zawodny used to work for Yahoo! Finance, and now he's sad... But the good news that Yahoo! has started working with Flex long time ago (Yahoo! maps Beta), and I'm sure they'll catch up with Yahoo! Finance as well.

 

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1. anon left...
Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:16 am

Sorry to disappoint you but get your facts right. Google built Google Finance using Flash and did not use Flex at all. There is absolutely no use of the Flex charting components in Google Finance as you cliam.