Blogger’s fresh new look

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/bloggers-fresh-new-look.html

by NSMeta • 15 years ago

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lapusta2• 15 years ago

Yet another project rewritten in GWT. Interesting, how they decide what UI technology to use in new products - GWT or Closure?

flyosity2• 15 years ago

Is it really done using GWT? Of the web engineer friends I know at Google, most hate GWT and try to avoid using it whenever possible. Most Google products don't use it.

OWaz• 15 years ago

Do you know why they dislike GWT?

irahul• 15 years ago

What makes you think it's GWT? The blogpost doesn't mention it.

lapusta2• 15 years ago

Switch to the new UI, open source code and search for __gwt_historyFrame, com_google_blogger_b2_gwt_dashboard_DashboardGwt etc.

Actually markup/generated script is pretty common for ones who worked with GWT, so it's very easy to distinguish such sites.

murz• 15 years ago

The new Blogger uses Closure, not GWT.

avolcano• 15 years ago

I'm actually kinda surprised they did such a big revamp of Blogger, when I thought in some ways they wanted to position Google+ as sort of a replacement - being able to create public posts that are as long as you want, follow people without them following you back, etc. I wonder if there will end up being some cross-over between the two applications.

michaelpinto2• 15 years ago

I'd bet you that it's coming -- my gut tells me they've focused the big guns on G+ and then will swing back to feature up other products to get a halo effect.

skeptical• 15 years ago

+1 (no pun intended) those services clearly have a large overlap. And there's also google pages. On a related note, wordpress.com/.org, thumblr did manage to held quite firmly. This also sounds like, not letting blogger degrade into an obsolete bulk, which clearly was (is?) happening.

michaelpinto2• 15 years ago

When it comes to Google I find myself eating my words from a year ago -- they've really gotten their act together in terms of cleaning up their product line. I only hope they go to the next level and modernize the feature sets Blogger to catch up with the Tumblrs of the world. I'm also encouraged by the fact that they're shutting down side projects -- it's like when Jobs came back to Apple and cleaned up the product line by killing off fanboy favorites like the Newton and HyperCard (two products I loved).

wyclif2• 15 years ago

I'm gratified by this news, but there are a lot of dead blogs (5+ years with no posts or more) and some squatting going on. I'd love to be able to petition Google for one of these, but apparently the policy is that whoever registers it has it for perpetuity.

kree10• 15 years ago

One of my favorite time-wasters is to think of a word or phrase, tack on ".blogspot.com" and see what's there. I rarely find active blogs this way.

Just now I tried http://chainsaw.blogspot.com/ and found a quintessential blogger blog with a single decade-old entry. I'd love to read a followup post but I know it will never happen.

Very occasionally I'll run into something like http://grasses.blogspot.com/ - abandoned, and perfect that way.

There can be a kind of weird beauty in those forgotten blogs.

wyclif2• 15 years ago

I wonder if GOOG will allow users to petition for these namespaces. Unless they do, it's doubtful that I'd ever use Blogger.

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