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The Code Behind Google Scholar
The whole web has been raving about the new beta from Google (see my rant here).
So, in keeping with being a fun and sharing community I figured I’d post the JavaScript that powers this beast behind the scenes. I’ve spaced it out (since Google removed everything extraneous, and I do mean everything, in favour of reducing the bandwidth requirements).
Anyways, I haven’t dissected the code yet, but here it is. Enjoy!
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about 7 years ago
Right off the top of my head, I can discern:
* Event catching code.
* Keyboard input catching code. (i.e. catching the control key in combination with other letters)
* XMLHttp requests (nothing new, they started this with GMail).
* CSS rule changes.
* Some kind of autocomplete text field function.
I went to http://scholar.google.com though and didn’t see anything that would use this scripting (used IE6 and Firefox). Am I missing something?