____/ BearItAll on Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:12 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ BearItAll on Wednesday 20 June 2007 10:27 : \____
>>
>>> John Bailo wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ask.com/?o=333&l=dir
>>>>
>>>> Check out all the widgets and ajax-y stuff
>>>
>>> It's a bit too much flashing in your face for my taste, I think previews
>>> might be better in a side panel.
>>>
>>> I like the idea of question helpers but this one and google don't really
>>> take it further than something typed with the same word/s as your search.
>>> Maybe they are worried of delays as you type.
>>>
>>> So for example if you do 'linux in the media' by the time you get to
>>> 'the' the helper has gone. I would have thought that the helper would
>>> help more if they missed the connecting words.
>>
>> Less is more. Start simple, allow to extend/grow bigger. The BetterSearch
>> Firefox extension, for instance, achieves some nice stuff, provided that
>> you want it. Making it the default is a case of shovelware.
>>
>> The only thing Google must change is their habit of delivering an ugly
>> mess that they call HTML, in order to boost speed. They are a terrible
>> model in that regard. It's like feeding someone fries, which is basic and
>> substanceless food, but also serving it off the floor.
>>
>
> I don't see the problem there, I just did a test page and viewed the source,
> it looked nice and compact to me, a bit of style info then functions and
> some html code.
>
> They don't do "\n" to format the actual returned data for an editor, but
> then they is probably no need since the vast majority of those pages are
> momentary, with the users passing on to other places.
>
> Nice little exercise there for regex and scripting if you do want to view
> the code. At first thought it might be enough to just look for <> pairs,
> but then indent certain others such as <td>
I think you are right. It has been a couple of years since I last looked at the
source. Perhaps they have fixed it. Omission of quote signs is no big sins and
the same goes for newlines. I remember something much more messy, but I'm not
entirely sure now.
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