Improvements to the Google News extension

chrome/common/extensions/docs/examples/extensions/news/javascript/util.js

Index: chrome/common/extensions/docs/examples/extensions/news/javascript/util.js
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--- chrome/common/extensions/docs/examples/extensions/news/javascript/util.js	(revision 0)
+++ chrome/common/extensions/docs/examples/extensions/news/javascript/util.js	(revision 0)
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+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.  Use of this
+ * source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the
+ * LICENSE file.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @fileoverview Defines the constants and most commonly used functions.
+ * @author navneetg@google.com (Navneet Goel).
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Default feed news URL.
+ */
+var DEFAULT_NEWS_URL = 'http://news.google.com/news?output=rss';
+
+/**
+ * Image URL of Israel country.
+ */
+var ISRAEL_IMAGE_URL = 'http://www.gstatic.com/news/img/logo/iw_il/news.gif';
+
+/**
+ * Alias for getElementById.
+ * @param {String} elementId Element id of the HTML element to be fetched.
+ * @return {Element} Element corresponding to the element id.
+ */
+function $(elementId) {
+  return document.getElementById(elementId);
+}