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  1. Everyone has a clock by Bogtha · · Score: 1 · on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix?

    I have never understood why so many people are so keen on putting a clock onto a website. Everyone has a clock.

  2. Re:How good is it by NickFitz · · Score: 1 · on Google Introduces Page Creator

    No, that's the nonsense spewed out by Google. If you go to Drew's own post on the subject at All in the <Head> you'll find some very nice valid code, complete with print stylesheet.

    (The only reason I posted a link to Drew's Google page was that I'd read about this on his site just before it appeared here at /. and had looked under the hood of his example page. As he says, "Signup was painless, editing was painless, publishing was painless. The resultant markup? Painful.")

  3. Re:How good is it by NickFitz · · Score: 5, Informative · on Google Introduces Page Creator

    The markup seems to be striving to be as bad as Front Page. Somebody should tell them that <font> elements are very GeoCities 1997, that <p> elements can't be nested, and that creating a bunch of <div class="foo"> elements isn't that much better than nested tables. I thought Google could afford to hire competent people?

    Drew McLellan has knocked together a page in which all of the above flaws can be seen.

  4. Re:Blah blah by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Informative · on Has Google Peaked?

    Allow me to specify a set of web sites I NEVER want to results for.
    Allow me to specify that I never want to see another damn .doc or .pdf file again.

    You could add those to Google yourself with relatively simple Javascript (Greasemonkey, userjs, etc). Just append "-site:example.com -filetype:pdf" to each query.

    DON'T HIDE THE GOD DAMN DELETE FEATURE UNDER A MENU!

    Here's a Greasemonkey script to add a delete button.

    How about it could come with an integrated tool that stops other toolbars from being installed? That'd be fantastic then I could just put it on my family's computers and not worry about them installing more tool bars, or any software for that matter!

    I thought there was an option to disable BHOs in the latest Internet Explorer running on XP? In any case, Internet Explorer 7 will have a "safe mode". I don't think this is Google's problem to solve.

    Integrate a clock, people like clocks!

    Everyone has a clock.

  5. Not sure if it's this... by mferrare · · Score: 5, Informative · on File Sharing Difficulties Frustrate Tiger Admins
    I had a problem with 10.3 authenticating to a W2k3 AD server and mounting shares. Turned out I had to modify the Domain Controller Security Policy on the server and set Microsoft Network Server: Digitally Sign Communications (always) to Disabled. I am now running 10.4 and I have no problems connecting to this w2k3 server.


    I got this solution from here by the way. Thanks to Drew McLelland.

  6. Re:XMLHttpRequest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Web Design Garage

    See Very Dynamic Web Interfaces by Drew McLellan based on this earlier blog entry by him.

  7. Re:Basic business practice is important! by JimDabell · · Score: 1 · on Tips for Selecting a Web Development Firm?

    If you need some pointers on this, a good start would be The Joel Test.

    Or even the Joel Test for web development.

  8. Re:A great idea by los+furtive · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Google Suggest Dissected
    I don't know how this person can be modded as insightful. XMLHttpRequest object may be non-standard W3C DOM, but it is still supported by all the important browsers.

    XMLHttpRequest is a godsend that has been used for RPC in most major clientside toolkits for a while now, but you mainly see it in web apps that you have to pay to use (written a few myself). The fact that Google is using it only validates it's importance.

    And I don't wish to be pedantic but using the term "non-standardized web sites" is rather misleading since you can use XMLHttpRequest and still validate your site against HTML 4.x, XHTML etc...

    Finally, what it boils down to, and like it or not this is the trend of all important web app style sites, is that page refreshes are costly in time, in bandwith, and in difficulty of maintaining state, and using XMLHttpRequest as a method of RPC is the most suitable and appropriate way of resolving these issues, and a hell of a lot cleaner than hidden iframes to boot!

    P.S. Client-side rocks. Further reading here.

  9. Re:All that's missing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Making IE Standards Compliant

    Drew modified youngpup's Sleight IE PNG hack since last July to work with CSS background-image, rather than the usual inline image.

    Background Sleight

  10. Re:All that's missing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Making IE Standards Compliant

    Drew modified youngpup's Sleight IE PNG hack since last July to work with CSS background-image, rather than the usual inline image.

    Background Sleight