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If you require it surely you can get it if you pay for that?
Yeah but the base license for the terminal is like £15,000 a year. With that you would expect to get at least what I get for free on yahoo finance.
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You certainly set a standard with the interactivity and general functioning of the charts you built! Kudos I'm curious as to why, if it's seemed so difficult to replace them, that Google hasn't gone with a rather wide-spread and capable library like High Charts?[0][1] edit: Or am I missing the core problem. Not that it's difficult for Google to coordinate on an internal chart library, but rather that it's a problem o…
I don't know enough about HighCharts. Funny to see that they also copied / were inspired by the Google Finance Charts sparkbar (that's what we called the thing that shows you the summary at the bottom with the handles that you can drag). I'd imagine is a combination of "not built here", pride (google engineers always feel that they can build everything better than the outside world), and performance (Google was inves…
That makes sense in terms of "built here" pride. Not at all surprised by that. Thanks
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Google probably has more engineering hours than any other company in the world. I bet they could manage it!
Google's issues these days are management and culture, not a lack of talent. Pretty much like every other big company that recently became big. For a smaller (but worse affected) example, look at Wikipedia. The majority of their spending is on management, and "soft jobs" like "PR" and public events. They spend a tiny fraction on the one thing that matters: Hosting bandwidth and upgrading their platform where all of t…
Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is also sometimes applied to the growth of the bureaucratic apparatus in an organization.
It's the typical Google development cycle. Build a great product, don't get enough users, engineers lose interest and boom the product is basically sunset. Years later it is either revived or cancelled outright.
Yup, I'm seeing this with Google sites (sort of) right now. Even though they're rolling out a new version, it's pretty much impossible to get a digest of all pages on the old sites with revisions. There is an API to access this data, but it's behind an amalgam of out-of-date documentation and forgotten APIs. edit: clarification
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It should be "Adobe Flash Player is required for charts on finance.google.com on Firefox otherwise static rendered chart image is not renderable either". I tried Firefox on Windows and Chrome on Windows, only FF can't show the static rendered image without first activate Flash.
I'm using Firefox and had no trouble viewing the static chart.
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Any recommendations for a better alternative?
Teletrader Public Webstation http://www.teletrader.com (full disclosure, that’s the company I work for)
As an idea - could you add the ability to import transaction lists (as csv) which have been exported from google finance?
Ok so I have this page up and have a new portfolio - how do I add transactions?
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If the trends of "renovation" I've seen on other sites are any indication, the Flash requirement will disappear but so will a bunch of other useful features. :-( IMHO if they can't change things without removing functionality, they should just leave well enough alone. They don't have to "support" the old version or do anything special with it; just leave it alone in its current, working, state.
But with flash being deprecated across pretty much every browser and EoL by Adobe, they can't really leave it alone.
The "this technology is old/deprecated/EoL/unfashionable/etc., let's just delete it all and provide no equivalent replacement, nevermind the fact that it's been working well" attitude is what really pisses off users, including me. Also somewhat like me, they don't really care what technology is as long as it works --- all they see is something which used to work is now broken and they can't do anything about it.
A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.
>Portfolios deprecation information: https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448?hl=en
A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.
I was a tad sad seeing that the other day. I have used it for 10 years.. I guess I will just have to use my investment site. Logging in is such a pain just to get a general update.