Google Introduces Page Creator 307
Seoulstriker writes "Google has introduced an AJAX web-publishing application called Google Page Creator. The app is great for getting whatever photos, information, files you want published, and it doesn't have to be in the typical blog format. The published site is hosted at the gmail user page. There are several templates and page formats to work from, and as far as I can tell, everything is WYSIWYG. The published HTML is very clean, but it does have some leftover fragments from editing pages repeatedly. If you want to be precise, you can manually edit the HTML. There is a Google Groups page available for the service. It took about 30 seconds to get a rudimentary page online." PC World has a quick rundown on the service at their site.
file hosting limit (Score:4, Informative)
Oops! (Score:3, Informative)
For a free service its not bad (Score:5, Informative)
No Safari support yet (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How good is it (Score:5, Informative)
The markup seems to be striving to be as bad as Front Page. Somebody should tell them that <font> elements are very GeoCities 1997, that <p> elements can't be nested, and that creating a bunch of <div class="foo"> elements isn't that much better than nested tables. I thought Google could afford to hire competent people?
Drew McLellan [allinthehead.com] has knocked together a page in which all of the above flaws can be seen. [googlepages.com]
A sterling job on the XSS defenses though (Score:5, Informative)
Had a play earlier as I was worried you might be susceptible to a similar thing as the MySpace "Samy is my hero" style XSS attack.
The following was witnessed:
So for all of the basics, the Google Page thingy passes all basic tests on XSS attacks.
Well done :)
I'm even recommended it on my forum [bowlie.com] already because the security gives me enough peace of mind to not regret doing so.
Re-edited summary for Google's Dark side... (Score:1, Informative)
Google has finally published their own AJAX web-publishing application called Google Page Creator. The app is getting photos, information and files you want published ; it won't publish in the standardized blog format, however. The published site is only hosted at the google domain http://gmailuser.googlepages.com/ [googlepages.com]. There are a few templates and page formats to work from, and it looks almost WYSIWYG. The published HTML does have leftover fragments from editing pages repeatedly, but it could be called clean if you could look over that. For technical diehards, you could edit the HTML by hand, but who does that nowadays. As usual, there is a Google Groups page available for the service. It could take 30 seconds to get a rudimentary page online, but this will ofcourse take much longer for any real stuff.
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Re:Oops! (Score:3, Informative)
You must be new here. Slashdot has been slashdotting sites long before these annoying digg users ever came around.
Re:How good is it - it does NOT VALIDATE ;-) (Score:2, Informative)
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdr
Failed validation, 16 errors. And these are serious errors that can tell you sth about googlepages engine.
michal
Re:How good is it - it does NOT VALIDATE ;-) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How good is it (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Compared to wiki engines... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:That isn't a strategy (Score:3, Informative)
It's not their entire strategy, it's only part of their strategy. You make it sound like everyone at google is just randomly trying stuff to see if it sticks. In reality, most of their time is is spent on planned development. They are encouraged, however, to spend some fraction of their work time on personal projects. In other words, they figuratively spend most of their day taking aimed shots at specific targets, but once or twice a day they shoot in a random direction with a shotgun.