I got an email from Google this morning which in part said: "...over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0..." This is great news. I have a couple of sites that I work on that just don't work in IE6 and it's the bane of my life. I really don...
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Last week I installed XMarks Bookmark Synchronizer and I am impressed. I use 4 browsers (sometimes 6 if you include IE6 and IE7) and keeping my bookmarks in sync on all the browsers and across all machines is a real problem. I regularly use about 5 different machines so with my 4 regular browsers that...
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At work we use Active Directory to authenticate our internal websites. This is great if you're using Internet Explorer because it will pass through to the application without requiring further authentication. However, on Firefox you're required to make some changes to get this to work. Open Firefox and...
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If you're a developer and you're using Firefox and you suddenly get this message: The proxy server is refusing connections It could be because you closed Fiddler but still have Firefox set to send traffic to Fiddler. Just click on the Fiddler link in your status bar and switch it off or restart Fiddler...
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Google have just released an asynchronous version of their Google Analytics site tracking code. The main advantage of this is that you can have the code start executing and collecting stats as soon as the page has started loading (because you can put it higher up in the HTML) and it won't interfere with...
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As part of the text classification work that I do I follow the uClassify blog who have just release a new web site called Age Analyzer . which guesses the age of the author of a blog. I plugged in the URL of this site and it guessed me in the 26-35 bracket. This would be flattering if you were to look...
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I'm working on a site at the moment and a number of the links on the pages do not need to be followed by the search engine (or other) spiders and do not need to be indexed. These links I set with the nofollow value on the rel attribute in the anchor tag follows: <a href="some-link-goes-here"...
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I've been logging the details of the failed attempts to register on a forum. I described this in my accidental discovery of defeating spam bots with email names . I keep an eye on these logs to understand the nature of spam bots and to pick out markers that make an attempted registration more likely...
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Just encountered a very weird bug in Internet Explorer (IE) with the input/button tag that manifests itself when deployed but does not exist when accessing a site on localhost. Makes no sense to me whatsoever. The tag I had looked like this: <button name="submit" value="submit"...
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