http://toshuo.com/2005/geeky-but-efficient-firefox-tweaks/ Chinese, Linguistics, Science, Cultural Observations and whatever else I feel like writing about Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:37:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://toshuo.com/2005/geeky-but-efficient-firefox-tweaks/#comment-1220 Intelligent Drone » Archive » Google Finance: I like the AJAX Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:32:52 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=14#comment-1220 [...] The individual stock screen is where Google Finance really gets interesting, especially to those interested in web development. On the right side, is a feed of news related to the stock in question. On the left side is a bar-chart of the stock’s price, under a box full of all of the usual information- P/E, Mkt Cap, etc. The truly impressive part of the interface is the bar-chart. Hovering the mouse over any part of the bar-chart will update the numbers for date, time, price, and trading volume at the top of the chart to reflect whatever point in time the mouse is hovering over. There is absolutely no delay or lag in the interface. What’s even more impressive is that you can click and drag the bar-chart back in time. As you do so, the news on the left side of the screen also scrolls back through time in perfect sync. Google Finance is flat out the most convenient, the most useful, and the coolest finance page I’ve seen yet. I’ve already made myself a Firefox search bookmark for it- [...] [...] The individual stock screen is where Google Finance really gets interesting, especially to those interested in web development. On the right side, is a feed of news related to the stock in question. On the left side is a bar-chart of the stock’s price, under a box full of all of the usual information- P/E, Mkt Cap, etc. The truly impressive part of the interface is the bar-chart. Hovering the mouse over any part of the bar-chart will update the numbers for date, time, price, and trading volume at the top of the chart to reflect whatever point in time the mouse is hovering over. There is absolutely no delay or lag in the interface. What’s even more impressive is that you can click and drag the bar-chart back in time. As you do so, the news on the left side of the screen also scrolls back through time in perfect sync. Google Finance is flat out the most convenient, the most useful, and the coolest finance page I’ve seen yet. I’ve already made myself a Firefox search bookmark for it- [...]

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