Google.com source code (not simple anymore)

  • And here I thought this was a post about the google.com source code being leaked. :-)

    I'd imagine that the rendered HTML is probably produced by a legacy system that stitches together a lot of different templates, some maybe even unintentionally.

  • No surprise, they have to compress like mad and avoid superfluous http requests. That sort of optimisation will never look fancy

  • I wonder why there are multiple style elements, in div#footcnt there are 2 right next to each other, they could have saved a whole "</style><style>" there, think of the bandwidth!

    /s

  • Quantified: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4647834

  • I wonder if the giant script was an external file, and now it's being splat on the page?

  • The other day I noticed that they're inlining image data in the src attribute instead of pointing at an external URL. Really taking things to the next level all-around - I wonder when that will become the norm instead of css image sprites.

  • Click-bait ;)

  • I don't get it, what's the point of this post? How is it adding any new knowledge to the readers?