Google Groups 2 Beta
Groups Google 2 Beta is online. It’s interface is quite similiar to the one of gmail.
Check out the new interface via going through some postings. One of the new features I could find is the option “Recent groups” on the left side of the panel, displaying recently viewed newsgroups. It’s also possible to “Clear this list”. Another nice feature is that searching for a posting via it’s message-id works via the normal search field.
What I noticed is a problem with the utf8-charset. Have a look e.g. at
this posting and the following screenshots.
Opera, Konqueror, Firefox, links2 and w3m on my laptop are displaying wrong characters:
Displaying source of the posting works as it should. A nice(?)/new feature is the protection of mailadresses, message-ids don’t get touched 8-) [many people can’t distinguish between mail-addresses and message-ids]:
Have a look at the javascript-stuff. Most of the important navigation-stuff seems to work without javascript:
