Question about HMTL, Javascript, etc.

Question about HMTL, Javascript, etc.

But before I ask, let me say once again how pleased I am with Zoho Creator. While it is clear (I think most of us would agree) that it is far from perfect, it is an EXCELLENT TOOL and I look forward to helping you guys improve the environment so that it become the "go to" tool for everyone.

Now - I notice that Google Maps has an API - I'd like to be able to pass parameters from my ZOHO app to their API. In my case, I'd like to be able to pass Google two addresses and have it tell me how far away they are. Google's API seems to support this. They require that you get a API KEY so they can track usage, etc.

I have a KEY, so step 1 is done. I've played with their examples and verified that I can get them to work with "straight" HTML (ie, no ZOHO involved).

My step 2 approach has been to COPY their simple examples for accessing the google data and PASTING them into a ZOHO HTML View. These examples contain a bit of Javascript.

When I strip out the Javascript from the example, the remaining HTML code presents itself just fine with the ZOHO environment. So far so good.

When I put the Javascript back in, I get a page with an awful lot of words separated by lots of + signs. It's clear to me that embedding the Javascript is not as straightforward as I would have hoped.

The Javascript is essential to accessing their API. I cannot get to the required data by say - doing a POST or a GET to any of Google's servers....

What is the right approach to including this Javascript?

I don't need you guys to present a completed example (but if you did, you could certainly point others to it), but at a minimum, could you give me the basic approach to take with something like this?

Thanks again for such a great product and for such awesome tech support. I really am sincerely pleased at how quickly you guys answer us...