Google Image Search gets a face lift

[squeeks]

At first when I saw the new display for Google's Image Search I liked it and thought "Yes, Yes - can't wait till I got the time to dissect it and see what method was used" - note: I have found that 'dissecting' pages or sites that I like to be one of the best ways to learn web dev - not copy, but inspect...

Then when I did have time I discovered a few disappointing things...
- no longer can I see at a glance the details for each image as I scroll
- the effect is accomplished via javascript, not CSS (nothing to learn for me)

Don't get me wrong, I love javascript - but not the wisest thing to achieve effects that could be accomplished with CSS (see Topic: the bleeding CSS) AND for sure the behavior of Google Images' face lift is right up CSS' alley...

Basically, I'd say the first gripe I listed ('no longer can I see at a glance the details for each image as I scroll') is the one that really gets me -- I feel it's pretty bad design wise - making a user "work" harder for the info they seek - that's the one that'll get me --- perhaps I'll disable javascript for them Google pages........

[femlow]

I'm not that fond of it either... Not necessarily for those particular reasons, as I really haven't thought that long or hard about it. Mostly I just find it kind of annoying that they had to go and make it flashier with no real benefit that I have noticed...

[KGIII]

Oddly this is one of the times I think that Google's been hijacking MSN.

[squeeks]

hey

looks like google must have gotten too many complaints --- they've reverted their image search to the way it use to be...

anyone know when this revert happened?

[KGIII]

I don't believe MSN has changed. LOL When you are a narrowband user that can be darned annoying.

[squeeks]

thankfully google's returned the simpler more direct display of image search results --- perhaps if we knew someone that had a bit of recognition from Microsoft we could talk them into asking Microsoft to simplify MSN's image search (hehe) --- but yeah - sheesh - MSN's image search > so fancy, so pretty, so neato - sheesh > you know its search functionality doesn't even work if you disable your browser's script....

[KGIII]

To go back to the top of this post, things done in CSS are limited in that they are suggestions. If functionality is important then scripting should probably be used I suppose. Though it is reaching the point where finding people without JavaScript capabilities enabled is actually fairly easy to do. (e.g. The Sun vs. Microsoft lawsuit of yore that took effect completely a couple of years ago.)

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