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May 07, 2005
BoingBoing: Google Accelerator is bad news for Web apps
For the 5 or 6 family members who read this blog, DO NOT USE THE GOOGLE ACCELERATOR. BoingBoing has the reason why.
Boing Boing: "Google Accelerator wreaks havoc on Web-apps by 'clicking every link' on every control screen in order to cache it -- so it also ends up clicking on 'Delete my account' and 'Launch pre-emptive nuclear strike,' etc.
The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages loading faster (since they've already been pre-loaded behind the scenes). Here's the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page -- including links like 'delete this' or 'cancel that.' And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations. So, if you have a 'Are you sure you want to delete this?' Javascript confirmation behind that 'delete' link, Google ignores it and performs the action anyway."
There you go. This means things like I dunno, your eBay account, your AOL home page, your online photos, YOUR BANK!!! will have issues. Wait for a fix.
Posted by Loyd at May 7, 2005 02:36 PM
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