Historically, Google has been known for the freedom of choice it grants to its users, and itself gives but little importance to strictly following rules, even if set by itself (well…Adsense is a different matter altogether, understandably because Third Party interests are stake). In one of the foremost embodiments of their motto of non-obedience of rules, Google once having decided upon using just primary colours for its logo, used the secondary colour ‘green’ for ‘l’ in its ‘Google’ logo, first made public in 1998.
Blogspot-navbar
In a change of stance, as is apparent from its recent strictness in enforcing the display of navbar on its blogspot sites, Google seems to be giving greater importance to rules, maybe with a motive of reducing spam-blogs and policy-violating blogs. This enforcement has been brought about in the following manner :
1.The blogspot blogs which had disabled navbar earlier have not been affected.
2.The blogs on which the navbar has been disabled recently,
(using the code:
#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
)
before the variable definitions in the HTML section, are behaving weirdly, with all the widget layouts, wrappers and page formatting going haywire, and the pages seem to be non-template ordinary pages.
Thus, apparently, Google seems to have become adamant on providing the Blogger-Advantage only when its terms are indeed followed, because the navbar is a must on free blogspot blogs. So, if you were thinking of removing that “ugly” piece of display from your blogspot blog, it might cost you a lot in terms of “beauty”.
The spam-blog (splog) reporting feature has also been made a lot more tedious by Google, definitely to reduce the number of fake reports. This should reduce the depair of blogspot bloggers, forced upon them by the increasing number of e-miscreants!
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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
I just noticed it 2 days back..still confused about its use..
I think you are asking what good it would do Google to enforce the display of navbar.
1.Reduction in no. of undetected spam blogs(splogs).
2.Next blog feature helps many bloggers gain new and even regular visitors, thus increasing their satisfaction with using blogspot.
3.Search this blog is useful since many bloggers don’t provide additional search boxes.
4.Share reduces the effort for sharing useful posts/blogs if you’ve not added Social Bookmarking gadgets.
Again, providing useful features which are rendered useless isn’t a delightful thing for Google. They’re not posting ads for providing you with such great features! So why not allow a harmless and useful little bar!?