An advantageous feature of applications written with the Google Visualization API is the diversity of publishing options. Visualizations can be published as an integrated part of a Spreadsheet or Fusion Tables application or, at the other extreme, as a standalone web application. Being scripted applications, Visualization API apps can go just about anywhere HTML can go.
In this chapter we will cover:
Sharing with Google
Publishing from Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables
Embedding in web pages (including App Engine apps)
Note
It is worth noting at this time that Google Gadgets have not been included in this chapter as an option for publishing visualizations. At the time of this book's publication the future support of gadgets was unclear, with several Google applications depreciating their support of gadgets. That being said, Google Gadgets itself is a publishing option but will not be discussed in detail in this chapter. For more information on the topic of gadgets, informative...