Peter D’Orsi

The latest version of Fasterfox, v1.0.3, checks the for the robots.txt file on the site the viewer is visiting to check whether it should pre-fetch or not. This new feature allows webmasters to add the following text (in bold) to their robots.txt file to prevent Fasterfox from pre-fetching links. Text To Add To “robots.txt”:

User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: [...]

It takes advantage of an unusual combination of implementations - IE7 and Opera 9 support CSS3 substring-matching attribute selectors, but they don’t support the negation pseudo-class; other current browsers which support one or the other, support them both. We can further distinguish Opera 9 from IE7 by the former’s support for CSS3 [...]

The 2.01 release of Wordpress fixes uploading, rpc, caching, and permalink bugs, as well as improving support for old version of php and MySQL in strict mode.
All in all we’ve closed 114 bugs in the 2.0.1 release, which you’re welcome to check out if you’re curious about every fix. To summarize:

You can now specify an [...]

I use a plugin in Firefox to make small adjustments to live sites, however today at work I was looking for something similar that would work in IE when I stumbled across CSSVista. CSSVista allows you to see both IE and Firefox in two seperate panes and allows you to edit CSS on an already [...]

From Web-Graphics:
We can’t escape it: the end of the year is the time for lists, charts and so on… To honour the tradition, a few days ago over at blog.html.it I posted my top 20 bookmarks of 2005. I’ll report them here in English: they’re divided by category, in no particularar order.