Sgt_Kickaxe - 2:18 am on Jul 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

How do you ditch the count on tall buttons? It's the only one where the blue +1 image is the right size for my site but apparently the only one I can't remove the count from.

P.S. If Google REALLY wanted to make it faster they would offer a static image/link which we can append information to. It works with facebook and twitter without a javascript file to load...

I suspect part of the purpose for NOT offering that is to gather visitor data, they want to know WHO is visiting which site and forcing a javascript file load gives them that. Next to my facebook and twitter buttons which require NO javascript file Google is the SLOWEST of the three, by a lot.

Also, some people get security warnings because of the javascript file to which Google responds...

The +1 button code requires a script from Google's servers. You can include this script using either http:// or https://, like this: <script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> If your web page uses https://, some browsers and verification tools will show an error when any assets on the page are called via [....] If your site serves pages via https://, make sure that the +1 button code on those pages also uses https://. (In fact, it's fine to use https:// in the button code for all pages, even if they are only served via [.)...]

I'll wait until they release a url/image based system without forced javascript.