Quick FYI for anyone using the ShowIP Firefox addon A new version was pushed out yesterday, v2.5, and it injects a request into every page load to a site thats seems to be well known for malware. I highly recommend disabling it or rolling back to v2.4 if you need it. example request: GET /coupons/deals?merchant=www.google.co.uk&referrer=&partner=ksod3 […]
and then there were… Five!?
A couple of months ago, Opera announced they were dropping Presto in favor of WebKit to allow them to spend their time focusing on the browser rather than the HTML rendering engine within it. This was seen by some people as a loss for web standards as Opera were the major company pushing standards and […]
and then there were three
Big news in the world of HTML this morning as Opera announce the end of Presto and a move to Webkit for all future products HTML rendering. Leaving the only three major rendering engines Gecko, Webkit and Trident. Mixed views on Twitter this morning, my opinion is its a shame that they feel the need […]
Google open a fresh pot
Google last night announced they have completed their migration to their new web indexing system known as ‘Caffeine’. This new system basically allows them to push anything Googlebot finds into the main index in seconds rather than weeks. Previously Googlebot would crawl the web, find a site, then submit its content to another system for […]
What happened to the design?
Today, one or two of you may notice the site looks a little different. That’s because the style sheets for both my site and the blog have been removed for one international day (that’s about 48 hours to you and me) to celebrate CSS Naked Day. Every year, website developers across the world remove their […]