26.01.2006 ~ The Google Web Stats Report
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Earlier this week was a turn up for the books - I praised Google for their stance on the US.GOV justice department data request, started adding Google Maps support to backpage and welcomed their web authoring stats report - until I took a closer look...
The report has a curious way of stirring up contentious issues in the web development community. The graphs are presented in SVG format (first time I've seen it used on a popular site but it leaves IE and pre 1.5 firefox dangling in the wind... waiting for the never to be plugin to download) when PNG or even a humble gif would have sufficed. It also attempts to stir the xHTML header delivery debate (the long running text/html vs application/xhtml+xml mime-type struggle that has kept me from going xHTML strict for a number of years now).
Speaking of which (especially considering my comment on the application/xhtml+xml header above), a Backpage experiment is being played out before your very eyes - the 'is it correct or what' application/xhtml+xml content type is being delivered Opera and to Mozilla based user-agents - the only side-effect visible being a small issue with the backgrounds on certain screen-lengths. Time
BpChat Alpha
Started work on a replacement to the present chat-room - the new puppy which kinda works at the moment will feature:
- Ajax style refreshes (using the non-Ajax approach of BpGallery)
- Sleek backpage style user interface.
- Logging - I'm nosey ;)
It will be simple compared to IRC or other chat apps out there, but it is an improvement compared to the present incarnation!