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This story comes from Leona.  Remember, if you like it – vote in the comments!  We'll total the votes at the end of the contest and whoever has the most votes wins a DVD Package!

This is the real deal.  About 14 years ago I lived in Nashville and worked in Gallatin, TN.  My company moved into an old brick building that had at one time been a head trauma rehab hospital.  It was a pleasant old building, and when my company leased it we were all excited. I got the third floor for my department, and didn't mind because it was roomy with a private bathroom.

My boss liked to go all out for special days and decorate for any reason at all.  When October rolled around, we had an evening open house planned.  It was the last week in October, I worked late, everyone else was gone home for dinner before the open house.  I used the restroom, and while I was in there heard a knock on the bathroom door.  I said, "Just a minute."  Didn't think a thing about it.  Went to the sink to wash up, and noticed a light flickering in the shower, showing through the shower's frosted glass walls/door.  I thought the boss had put a pumpkin in there with a candle for the open house.  Whatever.

Came out of the restroom, no one in the building.  Who knocked?  Went back and opened the shower stall door, no candle, no jackolantern.

Yet I had def seen a yellow light flickering in there.

I mentioned this the next week to a gal who worked on the third floor with me.  She had an office across the hall.  Her face went funny, and she told me that one night she had been working late, alone in the building, and was balancing her checkbook register.  She went to the restroom, came back to her desk, and across her register someone has written a big line of zeroes.  She assured me it was 9:00 p.m. and no one but her was still at work.

We were kind of nervously laughing about this stuff to the receptionist,  who told us that the fire alarm in our building tended to go off at 2:00 a.m., bringing our boss out to Gallatin from Nashville.  About a 40 minute drive each way.  The firemen could never find anything wrong in the house, but they told her the place had a local reputation as haunted.

I resigned shortly after that (for other reasons), but would never work in that building again!

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As you may know, we frequently review our products and features to ensure their effectiveness. After reviewing our AdSense video units feature, which allows you to show YouTube content and ads on your pages, we’ve found that it hasn’t had the impact we had hoped for. As a result, we’ve decided to retire this feature at the end of April so we can focus our resources on other opportunities to help publishers earn from their sites.

If you’d still like to display video content from YouTube, you can do so through YouTube.com directly. Visit any specific video page and look for the code in the ‘Embed’ box, or sign in to your YouTube account to create a playlist. In addition, please note that this change won’t affect the availability of other video-related ads options — video ads may appear in your AdSense for content ad units if you’ve opted into image ads, and AdSense for video is still accepting applications from eligible publishers who produce video content.

Starting today, the option to sign up for video units is no longer available to new publishers. If you’re currently displaying video units, we recommend that you start removing the video unit code from your pages as soon as possible so you can optimize your available ad space in advance. Please be assured that any earnings you’ve generated from video units in the past will still be credited to your AdSense account.

Once video units are retired at the end of April, any remaining Leaderboard or Skyscraper video units on your pages will direct users to YouTube.com, while other video unit sizes will automatically be changed to standard embedded YouTube players. These standard video players will display top YouTube videos, but you won’t generate earnings from them once this change occurs. If you have less than three ad units on your page, you may prefer to replace your video unit with a regular ad unit.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we continue to develop our products.

Posted by Arlene Lee – Inside AdSense Team

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Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Since launching Google Chrome last September, we received a number of questions from webmasters and web developers about how to make their sites look great in Google Chrome. The questions were very insightful and illuminating for the Chrome team, and I want to respond with a few helpful tips for making your site look stellar in Google Chrome.

Detecting Google Chrome

Most sites will render the same in both Safari and Google Chrome, because they’re both WebKit-based browsers. If your site looks right in Safari, then it should look right in Google Chrome, too.

Since Chrome is relatively new, many sites have confused Google Chrome with another browser. If your site doesn’t look quite right in Chrome but works fine in Safari, it’s possible your site may just not recognize Chrome’s user-agent string.

As platforms and browsers adopt WebKit as their rendering engine, your site can detect and support them automatically with the right JavaScript checks. Commonly, sites use JavaScript to ’sniff’ the navigator.userAgent property for “Chrome” or “Safari”, but you should use proper object detection if possible. In fact, Gmail has been detecting WebKit properly in Chrome since day one!

If you must detect the user-agent type, you can use this simple JavaScript to detect WebKit:

var isWebkit =
  navigator.userAgent.indexOf("AppleWebKit") > -1;

Or, if you want to check that the version of WebKit is at least a certain version—say, if you want to use a spiffy new WebKit feature:

var webkitVersion =
  parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.split("AppleWebKit/")[1]) ||
  undefined;
if (webkitVersion && webkitVersion > 500 ) {
  // use spiffy WebKit feature here
}

For reference, here are a few browser releases and the version of WebKit they shipped:

We do not recommend adding “Google” or “Apple” to your navigator.vendor checks to detect WebKit or Google Chrome, because this will not detect other WebKit or Chromium-based browsers!

You can find more information about detecting WebKit at webkit.org.

Other helpful tips

• Google Chrome doesn’t support ActiveX plug-ins, but does support NPAPI plug-ins. This means you can show plug-in content like Flash and Java in Google Chrome the same way you do with Firefox and Safari.
• If text on your site looks a bit off, make sure you provide the proper content type and character encoding information in the HTTP response headers, or at the beginning of your pages, preferably near the top of the <head> section.
• Don’t put block elements inside inline elements.

Wrong:   <a><div>This will look wrong.</div></a>

Right:     <div><a>This will look right!</a></div>

• If your JavaScript isn't working in Google Chrome, you can debug using Chrome's built-in JavaScript debugger, under the "page" menu -> 'Developer' -> 'Debug JavaScript' menu option.

To help webmasters and web developers find more answers, we created a support center and forum specifically to answer your questions. Of course, if you find something you think is really a bug in Chrome, please report it to us!

Help us improve Google Chrome!

If you’d like to help even more, we’re looking for sites that may be interested in allowing Google to use their site as a benchmark for our internal compatibility and performance measurements. If you’re interested in having Google Chrome development optimized against a cached version of your site, please contact us about details at chrome-webmasters@google.com.

Please keep the feedback coming, and we’ll keep working to improve Google Chrome!

Written by Glenn Wilson, Product Manager, Google Chrome

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