Map. Api. Email. Make Google Services Opera-Friendly. Although Opera is a modern browser that respects web standards, many developers don't have time to test their sites in Opera and prefer to block it. There are a number of Google services that return "incompatible browser" errors or deliver a trimmed-down version in Opera, even though the site would load just fine without the hardcoded browser checks (also known as browser sniffing). Google knows the service doesn't work perfectly in Opera and other browsers, so it does this to prevent user complaints: User: "Google, my browser crashed when loading Google Calendar.
" Google: "What browser do you use? " User: "Opera 9. " Google: "Sorry. Here are some problems: 1. 2. 3. To fix these problems, you may try to mask the browser as Firefox, but think about this paradox: "This site doesn't work in Opera because Opera has a small market share. A better idea is to try a script that does a little more by solving other small glitches: * Make sure you have Opera 9 (Help / About). * Find where to save it. Google's Wonder Wheel Experiment, and More. Google’s Wonder Wheel Experiment, and MoreBy Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen Google is running an experiment in their search results, apparently shown to a portion of their users. What happens is that on the search results, say for the query comic books, a link in the top blue bar will read “Show options...”. Click it, and a side bar full of options expands to the left. The options include some known experiments, plus things I didn’t see so far.
There are restriction options to show only recent results, only videos, only forum entries, or only reviews. You can sort by relevance, or by date, and you can only show results from time ranges like the past 24 hours or the past week. Here are some screenshots of the process (I’ve added a circle in the first screen showing the link that gets you started): One of the most interesting experiment features is the “wonder wheel.” If you want to try out this experiment yourself, that’s possible. Below is my screengrab (available on YouTube and as WMV): Introduction - Google V8 JavaScript Engine - Google Code. Welcome to the developer documentation for V8. V8 is Google's open source, high performance JavaScript engine. It is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, Google's open source browser. This documentation is aimed at C++ developers who want to use V8 in their applications, as well as anyone interested in V8's design and performance.
This document introduces you to V8, while the remaining documentation shows you how to use V8 in your code and describes some of its design details, as well as providing a set of JavaScript benchmarks for measuring V8's performance. About V8 V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 5th edition, and runs on Windows (XP or newer), Mac OS X (10.5 or newer), and Linux systems that use IA-32, x64, or ARM processors. V8 compiles and executes JavaScript source code, handles memory allocation for objects, and garbage collects objects it no longer needs. V8 enables any C++ application to expose its own objects and functions to JavaScript code. Googmarklets (Google Bookmarklets) Googmarklets (Google Bookmarklets)By Ludwik Trammer Bookmarklets are short snippets of JavaScript code added to the browser as bookmarks.
Every time you open such bookmark it executes its function, usually using information from the currently opened website. Bookmarklets can make daily browsing a lot easier by automating simple tasks. You can find many interesting bookmarklets on Squarefree.com. Google has an official bookmarklet itself. It's very simple – it displays a dialog box in which the user can provide search terms. It's a little outdated though, in the times when every browser has a search box right in a toolbar. Note: You can install a bookmarklet just by grabbing a link and draging it into your bookmarks toolbar. >> More posts Advertisement This site unofficially covers Google™ and more with some rights reserved. Getting Started with Google Gears. Jslibs - Google Code.