Google Suggest Dissected

sammykrupa writes "Google suggest Javascript code dissected and rewritten for all of you web developers out there. Cool piece of web reverse-engineering!" Joel Spolsky astutely notes that this will raise the bar in terms of how people expect the "internets" to work.

Comments

Raising What Bar?

[Sloth503]

This really rose the bar? I don't see how.

Re:XmlHttpRequest is cool

[Soko]

OK, this is cool. From Microsoft, you say?

As someone whose been burned^Wjaded^Wexposed to Microsoft innovations before, I have to ask the following:

1. How secure is this? IOW, does it rely on anything at all other than JavaScript on the client side, or does it hook into the OS on some level? If it does, how well is it isolated from the more dangerous bits in the OS?

2. If it does require anything other than JS - even if it does only require JS - is it Windows only, or have our good friends at Microsoft realised why a goodly portion of the tech community is, ummm, hesitant to accept thier 'vision' of what computing should be?

If XmlHttpRequest (Capitalised as it is, one could tell right away that it was spawned in Redmond) is all that and a bag of chips, how do us non=MS type enjoy it?

Soko

Re:Google Suggest just isn't very useful

[byolinux]

EAT UP MARTHA