Xah Web Dev Blog Archive 2011-08

2011-12-14

Microsoft Apple Mozilla Dismiss Dart

2011-10-25

CSS tutorial, now on its own page: Xah CSS Tutorial .

2011-10-12

Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant (2011)

2011-10-10

History of the HTML Script Tag (JavaScript) (2011)

2011-10-10

HTML code tag inside pre (2011)

2011-10-09

Updated: JavaScript Tutorial .

2011-10-05

some font related articles. The Chinese Fonts Comparison one is new.

2011-10-02

Non-Javascript Web Sites Are Now History

2011-09-07

Project Gutenberg Founder Died (Michael S Hart, 1947 to 2011)

Michael S Hart (1947 to 2011) died on Sept 6th. Cause of death is not mentioned.

Here is the news sources:

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart
2011-09-07
By Gregory B Newby.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart

Michael Stern Hart, 1947-2011
2011-09-07
By Maitri Erwin.
http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/6100

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder (gutenberg.org)
2011-09-07
By News.Ycombinator.Com.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971971

I benefited from Project Gutenberg. Specifically, i used it to get the original text for the following 3 annotated work:

2011-09-01

Are Googlers the Minions of Google Marketing?

2011-09-01

Women in Tech, Google Plus, TWiT (2011)

2011-08-24

Website Ads in 2011: JavaScript popups

2011-08-25

Steve Jobs, 3 Months Before He Died (2011)

2011-08-22

Google: Don't be Evil vs Don't Do Evil (2011)

2011-08-19

The Google Plus Rap

humor: The Google Plus Song (2011)

2011-08-18

Google Chrome Reports a Malware Infested Site

Here is a Google Chrome screenshot, reporting that a site has been hacked.

Google Chrome stuckincustoms malware warning 2011-08-18 — Google Chrome warning on the site stuckincustoms.com , captured on 2011-08-18T15:07:21-07:00 .

The site belongs to a popular photographer Trey Ratcliff [Trey Ratcliff on Google Plus ~~https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts~~].

If you need a invite to Google Plus, click on this ~~https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3DGgVtaJi7mSY%3ACjIEwxuY0CA~~

If you don't know what is Google Plus, see: What is Google Plus? (humor) .

2011-08-16

TV Has Arrived on The Web (2011)

2011-08-16

SEO: Underscore vs Hyphen: How Google Webmaster Advices Hurt Quality Writers 📺

2011-08-16

What is Google Plus? (humor)

2011-08-12

Translation SEO Scam (2011)

2011-08-10

Facebook Disclosing Phone Numbers

it looks like you can now see all the phone numbers of your Facebook friends in one page. Go to menu [Accounts] on the upper right corner. Then menu [Edit Friends]. Then, menu [Contacts] on the left. I'm seeing about 40 mobile phones of my friends.

2011-08-06

Google Dictionary Shutdown (2011)

2011-08-05

Insider Look of Google Search with 3 Top Google Engineers

A very enjoyable video that gives a insider look at Google's search engine and how the team works.

It is in a format of a interview, featuring the well-known Google search quality engineer Matt Cutts, and engineer Ben Gomes (the man behind Google Instant and UI) and Amit Singhal (the “brain” of Google search engine). Danny Sullivan, of the searchEngineLand.com fame, is the moderator, and he asked great questions.

vidthumb qlAydU6vBZo — https://youtu.be/qlAydU6vBZo

“2011-08-03 Inside Google's Search Office: Matt Cutts, Ben Gomes, and Amit Singhal”

The video is ~90 minutes long, but very enjoyable and informative, easygoing.

2011-08-04

What Your Google Plus Strategy Should Be (2011)

2011-08-04

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