Google’s HTML Deconstructed

Lucas Gonze deconstructs Google’s HTML. View Source to see his annotations. When you’re pushing gigabytes an hour, you do some optimizations.

Notes on the header Javascript:

  • No language=”Javascript” attribute, presumably dropping back to the default to save bytes downloaded. [ The language attribute is no longer part of HTML ]
  • Very little action, for cross browser compatibility.
  • I didn’t find the place where these javascript functions are invoked. Invocation might be implicit in a way I don’t know, or it might be a bug that it’s here.
  • On the line "location.href=document.getElementById(a).href" there’s no terminating semicolon. Definitely a bug. [ No! Dori (who's written extensively on JavaScript) says all you need is a hard return.]
  • I manually indented and pretty printed the ga function so I could read it.
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