{"id":1556,"date":"2007-06-20T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2007-06-20T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:22:47","slug":"zillowcom-dimed-out-by-ubergeeks-please-dont-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1556\/zillowcom-dimed-out-by-ubergeeks-please-dont-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Zillow.com dimed out by ubergeeks: &#8220;Please don&#8217;t crash&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/worsethanfailure.com\/Articles\/A-Plea-from-the-Heart.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Worse Than Failure<\/a>, a coder&#8217;s redoubt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donniel Thomas writes &#8220;Javascript isn&#8217;t for the weak of heart or those short of patience. What works in one browser may not function properly, or result in a nasty JS error in another (*cough*IE*cough). Which is why I can understand what this programmer meant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The following screenshot is from the homepage of Zillow.com, which is one of the most popular and AJAX-y Real-Estate sites on the web. And, as of this writing, the coder&#8217;s plea still remains &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowDimedOut.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Zillow.com\" rel=\"tag\">Zillow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Worse Than Failure, a coder&#8217;s redoubt: Donniel Thomas writes &#8220;Javascript isn&#8217;t for the weak of heart or those short of patience. What works in one browser may not function properly, or result in a nasty JS error in another (*cough*IE*cough). Which is why I can understand what this programmer meant.&#8221; The following screenshot is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","10":"category-zillowcom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":575,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/575\/zillowcom-shake-down-this-is-the-first-shoe-dropping\/","url_meta":{"origin":1556,"position":0},"title":"Zillow.com shake-down: This is the first shoe dropping . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"John Cook, Seattle Post-Intelligencer:Zillow has contacted the NCRC, and the two plan to meet soon, Berenbaum said. 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Our story so far:Welcome to Race\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":211,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/211\/what-good-is-zillowcom\/","url_meta":{"origin":1556,"position":3},"title":"What good is Zillow.com?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This, possibly, which is just as useful and just as suspect as Dr. Jay Butler's undocumented statistics. We arrive at the level of actuarial science, at best, which is what an automated valuation method is. An actuary can tell you the anticipated death rate of a specific sub-population. 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