Archive for the 'google' Category

Getting things right vs. Getting things done
January 2, 2008

Most of today’s web developer will tell you that
the following:
<h2 id=”foo”>Click Here</h2>
<script>
$(’foo’).click = function(){alert(”Hello”)};
</script>
is better than:
<h2 id=”foo” onclick=”alert(’Hello’);”>Click Here</h2>
and the following:
<style>
body{
background-color:#ffffff;
color:#000000;
margin-top:3}
a{color:#0000cc}
a:visited{color:#551a8b}
</style>
<body>….</body>

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
sf();
if(document.images){
new Image().src=’/images/nav_logo3.png’;
[...]

Looking at gift horse in the mouth (or Google Reader is missing a core feature)
August 18, 2007

I know they said: don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Yet, since I have been riding on this horse for so many miles, I feel comfortable to point out few missing features I believe would make this a-grade web application even better.
I could not believe that a *Made In Google* application will miss [...]