{"id":766,"date":"2006-01-30T05:48:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/2006\/01\/30\/766\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T06:29:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T13:29:23","slug":"google-toolbar-api-guide-to-making-custom-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/766\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Toolbar API &#8211; Guide to Making Custom Button"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/tools\/toolbar\/buttons\/apis\/howto_guide.html\">Google Toolbar API &#8211; Guide to Making Custom Button<\/a> &#8211; <strong>aaaargh<\/strong>. I see Google&#8217;s recreated the OpenSearch Description format. Nice job guys. Oh yeah, and it also functions as an RSS feed information thingy&#8230;. which as far as I can tell, only provides refresh rate&#8230;. if they need that so badly they could make that element an extension to RSS\/Atom.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like Google&#8217;s attitude nowadays is &#8220;developers like APIs, and they like XML, so lets create lots and lots of little tiny APIs and new XML formats.&#8221; How about a new <strong>search API<\/strong>, like for images. The web search API was last updated years ago&#8230; . Oh, in case we&#8217;re counting, Google now has created XML formats for sitemaps (but they accept RSS and Atom, so what was the point?), homepage modules (why not use HTML, as I&#8217;ve written before?), &#8220;buttons&#8221; (Google Toolbar), 50 (exaggeration) kinds of microcontent (Google Base), etc.<\/p>\n<p>More later when I get back from school and have time to look into this more fully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Toolbar API &#8211; Guide to Making Custom Button &#8211; aaaargh. I see Google&#8217;s recreated the OpenSearch Description format. Nice job guys. Oh yeah, and it also functions as an RSS feed information thingy&#8230;. which as far as I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/766\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[142,12,248,171,249,137,247,204],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-api","tag-google","tag-googletoolbar","tag-opensearch","tag-opensearchdescription","tag-standards","tag-toolbar","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}