Coding Standards

We have some simple rules for coding in this project, and here they be:

• camelCase for variable and function names
• Variables and functions that use a search engine name should abbreviate the probably copyrighted search engine name to its first letter; e.g. “gUrl, yTerms”
• .htm, not .html, because IEEE
• HTML 5 for new development
• JavaScript still runs slow and we’re doing crazy stuff with it, so code for optimization, but keep things relatively readable
• Pretend you’re writing Python when dealing with whitespace
• Forget IE6 and browsers that can’t run GS, since this is already not going to work for them