Creating webpages with Excel Web App mashups
With Excel 2010, Microsoft also introduced the possibility to edit Excel documents on-line, using the "Excel Web App". If you have a live account, you can place an Excel 2010 file on your Onedrive. Anyone who has access to that skydrive folder can then open that Excel file on-line and edit it in the browser. Moreover, you can also embed that same Excel file on any web page.
Here is an example:
Very recently, the
Excel team has expanded on this idea and enabled us to use
JavaScript to "talk" to the embedded Excel Web App object. This way you
are enabled to create so-called Mashups of Excel Web apps and other data
sources.
How this works and what else is possible is shown on the next pages of
this article: