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Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, June 10, 2006
18 years ago2,481 views

Then
http://video.google.com/common/video_results.gif

and now
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=google

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

i think the old one was better.. :/
dont you think so?!

besides the upper side of the screen.. (they needed to change it)

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Ionut > since a week ago :)
http://www.zorgloob.com/2006/06/nouveau-look-pour-les-serp-de-google.asp

They remove the "Play" button on the small screenshots in order to incite visitors to watch the entire video.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

The change they really ought to focus on is to index web video content as well. OK, so many videos might not be of good quality – but at least make it an additional search result, lower-ranked if needed.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

This thread looks really bad in Opera 8.52 and Opera 9 Beta 2 (so, I'll conclude it looks bad in Opera) because of the image. The text expands beyond the right border.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

And IE too. And not just this thread, every thread that has an image whose width > 490px. The JS code doesn't work this way.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

The resize should take place in body onload.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Doesn't onload trigger only after all images have been loaded, which would be too late? I'll switch back to CSS in the meantime.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

You could always add the onload event to the IMG tag. That way, when the image has finished loading (rather than the entire page) it *should* resize correctly. I think this was the problem with IE and Opera before – they were calling the JS before the image had loaded.

(The problem with using CSS like you are doing means that any smaller images are over-sized – but I assume you knew that already...)

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Let's use two threads.

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/38459.html
< 490px

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/38764.html
> 490px (this one)

IE7 displays them the same as Opera. The images keep their size.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

> The problem with using CSS like you are
> doing means that any smaller images are over-sized

In Firefox, smaller images keep their size (I'm using max-width, but only FF seems to "get" this).

I checked Ionut's suggestion he sent yesterday and now I understand why it worked the way it did – there was a "visibility: hidden" for the images until the onload was called. I think onload is only "allowed" for the body element (by W3C) so I'll give that another try soon.

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